Proposals to replace the name of southern Colorado’s Kit Carson Mountain are coming in, but federal board says debate to change it still needs to happen. By Shanna Lewis · Jan. 29, 2024, 4:00 am.

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.

CRESTONE • Kit Carson was an explorer, mountain man, Civil War hero and pacifier of the Navajo. His name graces a Colorado county and town, river, national forest, two mountains ...

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 ...

On Nov. 2, the board held a meeting to address Kit Carson Mountain. The peak stands at 14,165 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, just north of the Great Sand Dunes National Park.

CRESTONE – Neighbors of Kit Carson Mountain in southern Colorado want to change the peak’s name because of concerns about the Indian-fighting frontiersman. Neighbors and Saguache County ...

Kit Carson Mountain in Saguache County. Proposed alternative: Frustum Peak. Originally Published: October 22, 2021 at 3:50 PM MDT. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window ...

CRESTONE — Neighbors of Kit Carson Mountain in southern Colorado want to change the peak’s name because of concerns about the Indian- fighting frontiersman. Neighbors and Saguache County ...

And no recent objections to Kit Carson's name have reached the federal level, but back in 2010, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names was asked to switch Kit Carson Mountain to Mount Crestone, and ...

"Because Kit Carson lived every phase of that westward expansion. He was a mountain man, an explorer, a scout, a soldier, a transcontinental courier. Finally he was a general." He was lionized in ...