Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, CO

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Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, CO
Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, CO

Colorado Springs,CO(El Paso County)

**Pikes Peak** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000245, date listed 19661015

15 mi. W of Colorado Springs in Pike National Forest

A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/co/CO.pdf).

Pike's Peak is probably the best-known and the most visited mountain in the United States. It is quite an impressive mountain. When Zebulon Pike made his historic expedition to the Upper Arkansas River and into New Mexico in 1806 he, on November 15, first viewed the mountain which was named for him at a point near Las Animas, Colorado. When the party reached the site of modern Pueblo on the 24th, Pike and several others, leaving the main party, set out for the Peak. In attempting to ascend the Peak, Pike and his followers encountered deep snow so were forced to descend and return to their main camp.

The first actual known ascent of Pike's Peak was made in 1820 by members of the Stephen H. Long Expedition. This expedition, after ascending the Main and South Platte, reached a point near present Colorado Springs. At that place Long directed a party under the leadership of Dr. Edwin James to ascend the Peak. On July 13, the small party set out and on the afternoon of the 14th, reached the summit. (1)

Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in North America. The ultra-prominent 14,115-foot fourteener is located in Pike National Forest, 12.0 miles west by south (bearing 263°) of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. The mountain is named in honor of American explorer Zebulon Pike, who was unable to reach the summit. The summit is higher than any point in the United States east of its longitude.

In July 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote the song "America the Beautiful", after having admired the view from the top of Pikes Peak. It appeared in print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on July 4, 1895. A plaque commemorating the words to the song was placed at the summit. (2)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NHLS/Text/66000245.pdf

(2) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikes_Peak

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