As dark, ominous clouds drifted over Quandary Peak early Wednesday afternoon, Denver residents Justin Burt, Wilder Ripley and ...

The popular likes of Pikes Peak, Mount Bierstadt and Mount Blue Sky are among fourteeners due for trail work this summer.

To illustrate this, let's take a look at Quandary Peak. It's currently the second busiest 14er in Colorado according to data from the Colorado 14ers Initiative (CFI). Snow covers the entire ...

No climb up any 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado is easy. And on a warm day starting with blue skies, workers with the 14ers Initiative and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps are at it early. They camp at ...

The Colorado Fourteener Initiative has been counting hikers on Colorado’s tallest peaks since 2014 and measured an all-time low use of the 14er trails in 2023. However, hundreds of thousands of ...

The organization estimates 260,000 hikes were taken on Colorado 14ers in 2023. That's the lowest number since 2015, when the organization started making estimates. The highest number was 2020 ...

A crusade to combat the proliferation of poop in Colorado’s backcountry entered a new frontier this week with the creation of a “Clean 14” initiative focusing on the state’s iconic 14,000 ...

Foot traffic on Colorado’s 14ers last year fell to the lowest level in nearly a decade, according to a report released Sept. 3 by the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative. During the 2023 hiking ...