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Pikes Peak

Mountain in the Rampart of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado; height 4,300 m/14,110 ft. It has commanding views, accessible by cog railway and road. There are also skiing slopes. Pikes Peak was explored in 1806 by an expedition led by Zebulon Pike and was first scaled in 1820 by James Long.

The reddish granite peak is famous for its domination of the western end of the Great Plains; for thousands of 19th-century migrants, it was their first sight of the Rockies. To the Ute, it was the place where the Great Spirit created living things. The US poet Katherine Lee Bates, on visiting it in 1893, wrote ‘America the Beautiful’.
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