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fourteeners
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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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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