Colorado Public Radio

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

The federal government is considering renaming Kit Carson Mountain, a ridge with multiple fourteeners in southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. During a recent update for the Colorado ...
The Gazette

A new name for Colorado's Crestone Peak?

For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County. Officially, Kit Carson's name has been attached to the ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate

Big Pivots: What should we call that 14er above Crestone?

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...
Colorado Public Radio

The Crestones

One of Colorado’s most beautiful, difficult and dangerous fourteeners is Crestone Needle, in the Sangre de Cristos. The strenuous climb to the pointed summit is on a steep trail of loose rocks and ...
The Durango Herald

‘Conundrum’ of Kit Carson, peak named for him

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Best column: What should we call that 14er above Crestone?

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...
The Durango Herald

Colorado 14er Kit Carson Mountain readies for a new name

Federal board wonders if a suggestion for “Mount Crestone” may be confused with nearby Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle as the state naming group weighs a new name for the 14er The Colorado ...
9NEWS

Another Colorado 14er could get a new name

DENVER — For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County. Officially, Kit Carson's name has been attached to ...
Summit County

Big Pivots: What should we call that 14er above Crestone? Mount Confusion? Complicated Peak?

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...
Vail Daily

Best: What should we call that 14er above Crestone?

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

What should we call that 14er above Crestone?

It’s called Kit Carson, but a state advisory board in January will review alternatives more acceptable to the Diné and others My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ...