An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

While the data itself suggests a new peak designation nay be in order, the summit has not officially been declared a “new” 14er. So, technically, it’s not categorized yet as such. And experts don’t ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Lake County Search and Rescue crews over the weekend responded to three different calls for help on popular Colorado 14ers. Two of the calls were on Mount Massive and one, which ...

A crusade to combat the proliferation of poop in Colorado’s backcountry entered a new frontier this week with the creation of a “Clean 14” initiative focusing on the state’s iconic 14,000-foot peaks.

Compared with record numbers from 2020, it appears hiking has sharply dropped across Colorado's biggest mountains. That's according to Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, which recently released its ...

The popular Colorado 14ers group of peaks saw a record low number of visitors last year, according to new data released by the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative. The highest point of Colorado, Mount ...

Colorado's tallest peaks continue to see far fewer people compared with record waves from five years ago. That's according to the latest hiking estimates from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI), ...

Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks saw a slight increase in foot traffic for the first time since the pandemic drove record-high visitation to the mountains, according to hiker use estimates published this ...