Hiker count on Colorado 14ers falls to 10-year low. And that’s fine.
The 256,000 hikers counted on 58 14ers by the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative in 2025 is down from 415,000 in 2020. The decline shows traffic is spread out, away from the most-popular peaks.
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