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Hike · Pikes Peak trailhead

Pikes Peak

Distance
26.0 mi
Vertical
7,999 ft
Summit
14,104 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Pikes Peak is an ultra-prominent fourteener of the southern Front Range whose 14,115-foot summit rises more than 8,000 feet above downtown Colorado Springs in less than fifteen horizontal miles — one of the most abrupt vertical reliefs anywhere in the Rockies. The mountain is…

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About Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak or America's Mountain is an ultra-prominent fourteener of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Pikes Peak's summit has an elevation of 14,115 ft (4,302 m) above sea level. Pikes Peak is in Pike National Forest, Colorado, with the base located in the town of Manitou Springs, 10 miles west of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County, United States.

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Pikes Peak framed by the red sandstone fins of the Garden of the Gods — Pikes Peak granite rises a vertical mile above the foothills.
Ahodges7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Snow-covered Pikes Peak, an ultra-prominent fourteener in the southern Front Range.
DrunkDriver · Public domain
The peak seen from the forested slopes that expose the 1.05-billion-year-old Pikes Peak granite that gives the mountain its pink hue.
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0
A break in the clouds reveals the plains below, viewed from the 14,115-foot summit.
Hogs555 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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