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6 Porch Notes tagged “fourteeners,” from counties across Colorado.

Outdoors and wildfire - Lake County

Lake County's fourteeners sit on national forest land with its own rules

Mount Elbert, Mount Massive, and the high country around Leadville are managed by the Forest Service through the Leadville Ranger District.

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Outdoors and wildfire - San Miguel County

The Lizard Head Wilderness holds three fourteeners and bans motors and bikes

The Lizard Head Wilderness southwest of Telluride contains the Mount Wilson, Wilson Peak, and El Diente fourteeners and the Lizard Head spire, and it is closed to bikes and motor vehicles.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Chaffee County

Chaffee County's fourteeners sit on national forest land

The Collegiate Peaks above Buena Vista are public peaks managed by the U.S. Forest Service, and some of the high country is designated wilderness with its own rules.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Custer County

The Sangre de Cristo Wilderness rises right above Westcliffe

The high peaks west of Westcliffe sit inside a designated wilderness in the national forest, where the rules are stricter than on ordinary forest land.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Pitkin County

The Maroon Bells are beautiful to photograph and dangerous to climb

Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak are two fourteeners above the famous lake view, and the Forest Service warns that climbing them is hazardous because of the loose, crumbly rock.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Park County

The DeCaLiBron 14ers above Alma share one trailhead at Kite Lake

Four high peaks above Alma — Democrat, Cameron, Lincoln, and Bross — are reached from the Kite Lake trailhead, but the Mount Bross summit has been on private land with restricted access.

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