Ranked Peaks have 280 feet of Clean Prominence

Rank	Peak	Elev-Ft	Prom-Ft	Range (Level 4)	Isol-Mi
1.	Mount Elbert	14,433	9073	Sawatch Range	670.6
2.	Mount Massive	14,421	1941	Sawatch Range	5.1
3.	Mount Harvard	14,420	2327	Sawatch Range	14.9
4.	La Plata Peak	14,361	1841	Sawatch Range	6.3
5.	Blanca Peak	14,345	5326	Sangre de Cristo Range	103.4
	Mount Massive-Northwest Peak	14,320	240	Sawatch Range	.9
6.	Uncompahgre Peak	14,309	4277	San Juan Mountains	85.1
7.	Crestone Peak	14,294	4534	Sangre de Cristo Range	27.4
8.	Mount Lincoln	14,286	3862	Central Colorado Ranges	22.6
	Mount Massive-Green Peak	14,280	80	Sawatch Range	.4
9.	Grays Peak	14,270	2750	Front Range	25.0
10.	Mount Antero	14,269	2503	Sawatch Range	17.7
11.	Torreys Peak	14,267	560	Front Range	.7
12.	Castle Peak	14,265	2345	Elk Range Area	20.9
13.	Quandary Peak	14,265	1105	Central Colorado Ranges	3.2
14.	Mount Evans	14,264	2754	Front Range	9.8
	West Evans	14,256	116	Front Range	.3
15.	Longs Peak	14,255	2940	Front Range	43.6
16.	Mount Wilson	14,246	4024	San Juan Mountains	33.1
	Northeast Crestone	14,240	80	Sangre de Cristo Range	.0
	Crestone Peak-East Peak	14,240	40	Sangre de Cristo Range	.1
	Mount Cameron	14,238	118	Central Colorado Ranges	.5
17.	Mount Shavano	14,229	1619	Sawatch Range	3.8
18.	Mount Princeton	14,197	2157	Sawatch Range	5.2
19.	Mount Belford	14,197	1317	Sawatch Range	3.3
20.	Crestone Needle	14,197	437	Sangre de Cristo Range	.4
21.	Mount Yale	14,196	1876	Sawatch Range	5.6
22.	Mount Bross	14,172	292	Central Colorado Ranges	1.0
	Mount Massive-Far Northwest Peak	14,169	9	Sawatch Range	.4
23.	Kit Carson Mountain	14,165	1005	Sangre de Cristo Range	1.3
	El Diente	14,159	239	San Juan Mountains	.8
24.	Maroon Peak	14,156	2316	Elk Range Area	8.1
25.	Tabeguache Peak	14,155	435	Sawatch Range	.8
26.	Mount Oxford	14,153	633	Sawatch Range	1.2
27.	Mount Sneffels	14,150	3030	San Juan Mountains	15.7
28.	Mount Democrat	14,148	748	Central Colorado Ranges	1.3
	Mount Elbert-South Peak	14,134	214	Sawatch Range	1.0
	Mount Massive-Southeast Peak	14,132	212	Sawatch Range	.7
29.	Capitol Peak	14,130	1730	Elk Range Area	7.4
30.	Pikes Peak	14,110	5510	Front Range	60.8
	West Wilson	14,100	100	San Juan Mountains	.0
31.	Snowmass Mountain	14,092	1132	Elk Range Area	2.3
32.	Windom Peak	14,087	2167	San Juan Mountains	26.6
33.	Mount Eolus	14,084	1004	San Juan Mountains	1.7
34.	Challenger Point	14,081	281	Sangre de Cristo Range	.2
35.	Mount Columbia	14,073	873	Sawatch Range	1.9
36.	Missouri Mountain	14,067	827	Sawatch Range	1.3
37.	Humboldt Peak	14,064	1184	Sangre de Cristo Range	1.4
38.	Mount Bierstadt	14,060	700	Front Range	1.1
39.	Sunlight Peak	14,059	379	San Juan Mountains	.5
40.	Handies Peak	14,048	1888	San Juan Mountains	11.2
41.	Culebra Peak	14,047	4807	Sangre de Cristo Range	35.5
42.	Mount Lindsey	14,042	1522	Sangre de Cristo Range	2.3
43.	Ellingwood Point	14,042	322	Sangre de Cristo Range	.5
	North Conundrum Peak	14,040	200	Elk Range Area	.4
	North Eolus	14,039	159	San Juan Mountains	.2
44.	Little Bear Peak	14,037	357	Sangre de Cristo Range	1.0
45.	Mount Sherman	14,036	850	Central Colorado Ranges	8.1
46.	Redcloud Peak	14,034	1436	San Juan Mountains	4.9
	Conundrum Peak	14,022	22	Elk Range Area	.1
47.	Pyramid Peak	14,018	1618	Elk Range Area	2.1
48.	Wilson Peak	14,017	857	San Juan Mountains	1.5
49.	Wetterhorn Peak	14,015	1615	San Juan Mountains	2.8
50.	San Luis Peak	14,014	3113	San Juan Mountains	27.0
	North Maroon Peak	14,014	214	Elk Range Area	.4
51.	Mount of the Holy Cross	14,005	2111	Sawatch Range	18.5
52.	Huron Peak	14,003	1403	Sawatch Range	3.2
53.	Sunshine Peak	14,001	481	San Juan Mountains	1.3
	South Bross Peak	14,000	40	Central Colorado Ranges	.6
	Columbia Point	13,960	320	Sangre de Cristo Range	.2
	Kitty Kat Carson	13,960	40	Sangre de Cristo Range	.3

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List Description

The Colorado Fourteeners are one of the best-known peakbagging lists in the world. Every single Rocky Mountain summit rising to over 14,000 feet lies in the arbitrary rectangle of Colorado, and these summits that cross the magic threshold have become iconic landmarks of the state. Maps and atlases try to show as many of these peaks as possible, road signs point them out to car travellers, and the hikes to summits of fourteeners are thronged on summer weekends.

The popularity of this peakbagging pursuit is easy to understand. 53 or 54 peaks is not too many, but enough to make it a real project. All but about eight or so of the peaks are just walk-up hikes, and the difficult ones are not a problem for experienced scramblers. In summer there are few, if any, snowfields to contend with, and afternoon thunderstorms are the major weather hazard. These summits are all among the highest in the United States, too, giving this list high appeal to those who like simply to be above it all.

Carl Blaurock and Bill Ervin were the first to climb all the fourteeners in the 1920s, based on the surveys at that time. Recently, climber number 1000 completed the entire list, based on the records of the Colorado Mountain Club.

As with many famous threshold-based peak lists, there is ongoing debate over which summits belong on the list. Above, summits are ranked if they have 280 feet or more of clean prominence (300 feet of interpolated prominence), giving us a consistent list with 53 summits. Traditionally, El Diente and North Maroon Peak are included on most versions of Colorado Fourteener lists, mainly because of the difficulty of traversing the ridge to these peaks despite a low saddle rise from their nearest higher neighbors. Also, Challenger Point has long been left off traditional lists, and Ellingwood Peak was in a similar situation not too recently.

If you include El Diente and North Maroon, and you want a strict prominence cutoff, then Northwest Massive (and perhaps South Elbert) must also be included on your list.

Of course, it is up to the climber to decide which peaks to climb. You can pick a rigid prominence cutoff that fancies you, use an official club list, use an isolation cutoff, or just climb the peaks that inspire you the most.

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