Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. The ultra-prominent 14,115-foot (4,302.31 m) fourteener is located in Pike National Forest, 12 miles (19 km) west of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. The town of Manitou Springs lies at its base.
Pikes Peak, east aspect
Pikes Peak (Pikes Peak granite, Mesoproterozoic)
An 1890 winter climb (near Windy Point) up Pikes Peak
Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway train rounding Windy Point, around 1900.
The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming. It is the first mountain range encountered as one goes westbound along the 40th parallel north across the Great Plains of North America.
Front Range Peaks in the Indian Peaks Wilderness
Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods.
Uplifted Lyons Sandstone slabs along the eastern edge of the Front Range
Front Range near Estes Park, Colorado (Mummy Mountain)