America the beautiful.” Not everyone knows that those words and that famous song were inspired by the mountain right in our ...

At pikes-peak.com, he describes it as a hike you train for, not one you just decide to do. Timing is an issue for a winter hike, it takes 6 to 8 hours to hike, in good weather with a clear trail.

Hike to Pikes Peak. Two hours from the trailhead, at 8,600 feet, the Barr Trail reaches the solitude of an aspen and fir forest with sparse traffic. Four hours into the climb, ...

Pikes Peak is much more than a 14,115-foot heap of uplifted granite. While appearing monolithic from a patio in town, it's an amazingly complex mountain, with long sloping valleys, pine-studded ...

Climber Mark Szabo, center, hugs Nick Baki, right, outside of Barr Camp before climbers head out to make the push for the summit during the annual AdAmAn's club hike up Pikes Peak on Dec. 31, 2019.

Horsethief Park Trail, a popular hiking path that leads to several scenic spots around Pikes Peak, will shut down Thursday because a private landowner is closing access to the portion of their ...