Hike · Longs Peak trailhead

Longs Peak

Distance

16.8 mi

Vertical

4,879 ft

Summit

12,100 ft

Difficulty

Very strenuous

Longs Peak is the northernmost fourteener in the Rocky Mountains — 14,259 feet at the summit, the highest point in Rocky Mountain National Park and a benchmark on the Colorado state quarter. It is named for Major Stephen Long, an Army explorer who in June 1820 became the first…

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About Longs Peak

Longs Peak is a mountain in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,256-foot (4345.22 m) fourteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, 9.6 miles (15.5 km) southwest by south of the Town of Estes Park, Colorado, United States. Longs Peak is the northernmost fourteener in the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in Boulder County and Rocky Mountain National Park. The mountain was named in honor of explorer Stephen Harriman Long and is featured on the Colorado state quarter.

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Chasm Lake's emerald water sits at the foot of Longs Peak's east face, the granite walls of the Diamond rising directly above the shoreline. — KimonBerlin · CC BY-SA 2.0

A late-summer view across Chasm Lake to the snowfields below the Diamond on Longs Peak. — KimonBerlin · CC BY-SA 2.0

Talus and meltwater streams fill the cirque approach to Chasm Lake, with the Diamond catching morning light overhead. — KimonBerlin · CC BY-SA 2.0

The trail climbs into the Chasm Lake basin under the broad south shoulder of Longs Peak. — KimonBerlin · CC BY-SA 2.0

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