Hiking may be a perennial activity, thanks to technology like snowshoes and crampons, but when you’re talking about hiking 14ers, the window of opportunity is substantially smaller for most of us.

DENVER (KDVR) — Coloradans aren’t taking to the state’s famed high peaks as much as they used to. Parking and access are to blame. The number of hikers on Colorado 14ers in 2022 was the second-lowest ...

Dig climbing Colorado’s storied 14,000-foot peaks? You aren’t alone: 500,000 people attempt to bag one of our 58 high-country monarchs every year. But those mountains just don’t take care of ...

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 season, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Longs Peak recorded its ...

GEORGETOWN, Colo. — Whether you're here for the weekend or you've lived here all your life, hiking a 14er is a tradition for many in Colorado. But new data from the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative ...

The white summits of Colorado’s 14er s are continuing to diminish as summer temperatures bear down on the remnants of an above-average snow season. But while hiking may be more accessible, the state’s ...

Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks saw a slight increase in foot traffic for the first time since the pandemic drove record-high visitation to the mountains, according to hiker use estimates published this ...

Compared with record numbers from 2020, it appears hiking has sharply dropped across Colorado's biggest mountains. That's according to Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, which recently released its ...