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This is a complete list of the 53 fourteeners in the U.S. State of Colorado with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence. See the main fourteener article , which has a list of all of the fourteeners in the United States, for some information about how such lists are determined and caveats about elevation and ranking accuracy.
East Ridge: Hike, class 1 [5] Quandary Peak is the highest summit of the Tenmile Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America and is the most commonly climbed fourteener in Colorado . [ 6 ] It has nearly the same elevation as Castle Peak and Mount Blue Sky .
Mount Sherman is a high mountain summit in the Mosquito Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 14,043-foot (4,280 m) fourteener is located 6.8 miles (11.0 km) east by south (bearing 103°) of the City of Leadville, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating Lake County from Park County.
La Plata Peak is the fifth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado.The prominent 14,343-foot (4,372 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 22.7 miles (36.5 km) northwest by west (bearing 308°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.
West Ridge: Hike, class 2 [5] Mount Lincoln is the eighth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado . The prominent 14,291-foot (4355.79 m) fourteener is the highest summit of the Mosquito Range and the eleventh-highest summit in the contiguous United States .
Mount of the Holy Cross is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 14,011-foot (4270.5 m) fourteener is located in the Holy Cross Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) west-southwest (bearing 244°) of the Town of Red Cliff in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Mountains of Colorado. It includes mountains that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category contains fourteeners (i.e. mountains over 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in elevation) in the state of Colorado .
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener (also spelled 14er) is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 ft (4267 m). The 96 fourteeners in the United States are all west of the Mississippi River. Colorado has the most (53) of any single state; Alaska is second with 29.