How To Get There • Drive south on U.S. Highway 24 through Leadville and turn west onto Colorado Highway 300 after more than three miles. • After three-quarters of a mile, turn left onto Lake County ...

LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount Elbert, provides a textbook Rocky Mountain ...

Chris Layne said her life changed in a second when she started to slip while on a hike in Clear Creek Canyon back in October 2016. "When I fell, I remember rolling down like a log," Layne said. "The ...

Great day doing something. I love outdoors hiking. And Chris has been in the chair for almost seven years now, after an accident in Clear Creek Canyon, never thought by the end of seven steps into my ...

LAKE COUNTY, Colo. (KCNC/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A woman in a wheelchair reached the summit of Colorado's Mount Elbert. Thanks to dozens of volunteers, she was able to see the top of the state's ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Though it may lack in true climbing excitement compared with many of the state’s 14,000-foot mountains, hiking Colorado’s highest point, Mount ...

The following is part of KRCC's 'Peak Past' essay series. “Elbert" is just a guy. Just some guy, who happens to be the namesake of Colorado’s highest Fourteener, all 14,440 feet of it. Samuel H.