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Geography and geology Pikes Peak (Pikes Peak granite, Mesoproterozoic) The name was simplified to 'Pikes Peak' by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1890. The mountain was later renamed 'Pike's Peak' in honor of Pike. American explorer Zebulon Pike named the mountain 'Highest Peak' in 1806, and the mountain was later commonly known as 'Pike's Highest Peak.' American explorer Stephen Harriman Long named the mountain 'James Peak' in honor of Edwin James who climbed to the summit during Long's Expedition of 1820. Įarly Spanish explorers named the mountain 'El Capitán,' meaning 'The Leader'. Throughout its history, European peoples have called the mountain El Capitán, Grand Peak, Great Peak, James Peak, Long Mountain, and Pike's Peak. In the 1800s, when the Arapaho people arrived in Colorado, they knew the mountain as Heey-otoyoo' meaning 'Long Mountain'. It is thought that the Ute people first arrived in Colorado about 500 A.D., however their oral history states that they were created on Tava. Tava or 'sun', is the Ute word that was given by these first people to the mountain that we now call Pikes Peak. The band of Ute people who called the Pikes Peak region their home were the Tabeguache, whose name means the 'People of Sun Mountain'. The summit is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude. The mountain is named in honor of American explorer Zebulon Pike (though he was unable to reach the summit). The town of Manitou Springs lies at its base. The ultra-prominent 14,115-foot (4,302.31 m) fourteener is located in Pike National Forest, 12 miles (19 km) west of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. High point of El Paso County, Colorado, United States Įast Slopes (Barr Trail): Hike, class 1 Pikes Peak (the United States) Show map of the United States

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