If you like high summits, consider moving to Colorado and making it your base camp for years of peak bagging. Colorado even tops Alaska for the number of peaks over 14,000 feet. Sure, there are higher and harder mountains up north, but Colorado has more attainable summits to choose from and a longer climbing season as well.

Mount Elbert, the state’s highest point, tops out at 14,433 feet and Sunshine Peak makes the list by about a foot. In between these two, there are more than 50 others that you’ll need to climb before you can say you’ve conquered Colorado’s mountaineering tick list. If you need a warm up, there are 200 more peaks in Colorado that aren’t quite 14ers but still tower above 13,500 feet. Some peaks are simple walk-ups (simple if you ignore the challenges of the high altitude), but others are class 3 scrambles and class 4 climbs. Colorado has a lifetime’s worth of mountains to climb so you better get started.

View on Climb to Torreys and Grays Peaks

Satellite summits of the major peaks are sometimes included on the list of Colorado’s 14ers, but we have only included the major peaks here. So how many fourteeners are there are in Colorado? Well, the number varies with the inclusion of satellite peaks, but 53 are typically considered separate major summits above 14,000 feet.

Below is a list of the peaks sorted by elevation.

Mountains on this map

Mountain Elevation
Mount Elbert (State High Point) 14,433 ft (4,399 m)
Mount Massive 14,421 ft (4,396 m)
Mount Harvard 14,420 ft (4,395 m)
Blanca Peak 14,345 ft (4,372 m)
La Plata Peak 14,336 ft (4,370 m)
Uncompahgre Peak 14,309 ft (4,361 m)
Crestone Peak 14,294 ft (4,357 m)
Mount Lincoln 14,286 ft (4,354 m)
Grays Peak 14,270 ft (4,349 m)
Mount Antero 14,269 ft (4,349 m)
Torreys Peak 14,267 ft (4,349 m)
Quandary Peak 14,265 ft (4,348 m)
Castle Peak 14,265 ft (4,348 m)
Mount Evans 14,264 ft (4,348 m)
Longs Peak 14,255 ft (4,345 m)
Mount Wilson 14,246 ft (4,342 m)
Mount Shavano 14,229 ft (4,337 m)
Mount Belford 14,197 ft (4,327 m)
Mount Princeton 14,197 ft (4,327 m)
Crestone Needle 14,197 ft (4,327 m)
Mount Yale 14,196 ft (4,327 m)
Mount Bross 14,172 ft (4,320 m)
Kit Carson Peak 14,165 ft (4,317 m)
Maroon Peak 14,156 ft (4,315 m)
Tabeguache Peak 14,155 ft (4,314 m)
Mount Oxford 14,153 ft (4,314 m)
Mount Sneffels 14,150 ft (4,313 m)
Mount Democrat 14,148 ft (4,312 m)
Capitol Peak 14,130 ft (4,307 m)
Pikes Peak 14,110 ft (4,301 m)
Snowmass Mountain 14,092 ft (4,295 m)
Mount Eolus 14,083 ft (4,292 m)
Windom Peak 14,082 ft (4,292 m)
Challenger Point 14,081 ft (4,292 m)
Mount Columbia 14,073 ft (4,289 m)
Missouri Mountain 14,067 ft (4,288 m)
Humboldt Peak 14,064 ft (4,287 m)
Mount Bierstadt 14,060 ft (4,285 m)
Sunlight Peak 14,059 ft (4,285 m)
Handies Peak 14,048 ft (4,282 m)
Culebra Peak 14,047 ft (4,282 m)
Mount Lindsey 14,042 ft (4,280 m)
Ellingwood Point 14,042 ft (4,280 m)
Little Bear Peak 14,037 ft (4,278 m)
Mount Sherman 14,036 ft (4,278 m)
Redcloud Peak 14,034 ft (4,278 m)
Pyramid Peak 14,018 ft (4,273 m)
Wilson Peak 14,017 ft (4,272 m)
Wetterhorn Peak 14,015 ft (4,272 m)
San Luis Peak 14,014 ft (4,271 m)
Mount of the Holy Cross 14,005 ft (4,269 m)
Huron Peak 14,003 ft (4,268 m)
Sunshine Peak 14,001 ft (4,268 m)