Kit Carson Mountain News Today

Four new names have been proposed for the ridge with multiple 14ers in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is not keen to rename the 14,171-foot Kit Carson Mountain in the Sangre de Cristo range after a flat-topped pyramid shape known in geometry as a frustum. ...

A new proposal to rename Kit Carson Mountain, located in southern Colorado's Sangre de Cristo range, is based on the contested history of the famed Army officer. It references Carson’s violence agains...

Commissioner, GWS councilors proposed ‘Lost Sheepherder Gulch’

Five spectacular 14,000-foot peaks in Southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains are also perilous. Known as the Crestone group, these peaks regularly claim the lives of climbers and hikers and ar...

Success in the mountains is never guaranteed.

Governor Polis re-established the CO Geographic Naming Advisory Board. Renaming Colorado landmarks reckons with violent historical ties.

The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is considering changing the names of some of Colorado's landmarks, including Mt. Evans, because of ties to racism.

The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is considering changing the names of some of Colorado's landmarks, including Mt. Evans, because of ties to racism.

To get to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site near Eads, where 230 Native Americans were murdered, you might drive through a town named for their murderer. In between Eads and the turnoff, you’ll go through the unincorporated town of Chivington. It’s named for Civil War-era Col. John Chivington, who led the attack by the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries on Arapaho and Cheyenne living at Sand Creek that resulted in the slaughter. Half of those killed were women and children. While C...