A Drive up Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak (originally Pike's Peak) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains within Pike National Forest, 10 mi (16 km) west of Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado in the United States of America.
Originally called "El Capitán" by Spanish explorers, the mountain was renamed Pike's Peak after Zebulon Pike, Jr., an explorer who led an expedition to the southern Colorado area in 1806. The Arapaho name is heey-otoyoo’ ("long mountain").[5]
At 14,115 feet (4,302 m),[1] it is one of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet (4,300 m) above mean sea level, and rises 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. Pikes Peak is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude.Pikes Peak COScenes from out westRocky MountainsScenic drivesColorado
A Drive up Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak (originally Pike's Peak) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains within Pike National Forest, 10 mi (16 km) west of Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado in the United States of America.
Originally called "El Capitán" by Spanish explorers, the mountain was renamed Pike's Peak after Zebulon Pike, Jr., an explorer who led an expedition to the southern Colorado area in 1806. The Arapaho name is heey-otoyoo’ ("long mountain").[5]
At 14,115 feet (4,302 m),[1] it is one of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet (4,300 m) above mean sea level, and rises 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. Pikes Peak is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude.Pikes Peak COScenes from out westRocky MountainsScenic drivesColorado
A Drive up Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak (originally Pike's Peak) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains within Pike National Forest, 10 mi (16 km) west of Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado in the United States of America.
Originally called "El Capitán" by Spanish explorers, the mountain was renamed Pike's Peak after Zebulon Pike, Jr., an explorer who led an expedition to the southern Colorado area in 1806. The Arapaho name is heey-otoyoo’ ("long mountain").[5]
At 14,115 feet (4,302 m),[1] it is one of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet (4,300 m) above mean sea level, and rises 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. Pikes Peak is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude.Pikes Peak COScenes from out westRocky MountainsScenic drivesColorado
A Drive up Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak (originally Pike's Peak) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains within Pike National Forest, 10 mi (16 km) west of Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado in the United States of America.
Originally called "El Capitán" by Spanish explorers, the mountain was renamed Pike's Peak after Zebulon Pike, Jr., an explorer who led an expedition to the southern Colorado area in 1806. The Arapaho name is heey-otoyoo’ ("long mountain").[5]
At 14,115 feet (4,302 m),[1] it is one of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet (4,300 m) above mean sea level, and rises 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. Pikes Peak is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude.Pikes Peak COScenes from out westRocky MountainsScenic drivesColorado