The Gazette

A new name for Colorado's Crestone Peak?

For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County. Officially, Kit Carson's name has been attached to the ...
Colorado Public Radio

Proposals to replace the name of southern Colorado’s Kit Carson Mountain are coming in, but federal board says debate to change it still needs to happen

The federal government is considering renaming Kit Carson Mountain, a ridge with multiple fourteeners in southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. During a recent update for the Colorado ...

Twins’ Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Country’s Map

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...
Westword

Measuring Colorado’s Mountains, One Hike at a Time

In the middle of a chilly October night in 2025, my two friends and I suited up at the Cottonwood Creek trailhead and started a trek into the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado. It was a little ...
The Durango Herald

Colorado 14er Kit Carson Mountain readies for a new name

Federal board wonders if a suggestion for “Mount Crestone” may be confused with nearby Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle as the state naming group weighs a new name for the 14er The Colorado ...
The Aspen Times

How a mountaineer discovered a potential 3.6-inch discrepancy that could result in a ‘new’ Colorado 14er

A surveyor says he has discovered a new Colorado 14er after hauling GPS equipment to the top two peaks in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. No, Eric Gilbertson did not suddenly locate a new 14,000-foot ...
9NEWS

Another Colorado 14er could get a new name

DENVER — For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County. Officially, Kit Carson's name has been attached to ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate

Big Pivots: What should we call that 14er above Crestone?

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Best column: What should we call that 14er above Crestone?

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...
The Denver Post

What is Colorado’s highest 14er? Here’s the updated list of all 58 peaks

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This is a new list of the 58 named peaks in Colorado greater than 14,000 feet above sea level, as measured by the National Geodetic Survey using GPS data.
Vail Daily

Best: What should we call that 14er above Crestone?

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...