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The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky during the Council of Geographic Names Authorities conference Friday afternoon.

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky during the Council of Geographic Names Authorities conference Friday afternoon.

By: Mary-Beth Skylis Fall is often a two-month operation across the state of Colorado. Due to the varying elevations, leaf peepers get the chance to Colorado offers plenty of leaf-peeping possibilities across the state

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Mount Evans, the Colorado fourteener named after the state's disgraced territorial governor John Evans, has been given a new name -- Mount Blue Sky -- by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

The mountain had been named for Colorado’s second territorial governor, John Evans, determined by historians to have set in motion the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

Tribal leaders are now focusing their efforts on changing the name of the adjacent Mount Evans Wilderness Area to Mount Blue Sky Wilderness area

A federal naming board voted Friday afternoon to rename Mount Evans in Clear Creek County to Mount Blue Sky.

Tribal leaders are now focusing their efforts on changing the name of the adjacent Mount Evans Wilderness Area to Mount Blue Sky Wilderness area

Applause erupted from the crowd as they listened to a federal board’s decision to rename Mount Evans in Colorado to Mount Blue Sky. Some of those cheering were listening virtually as the U.S. …