100 Highest Mountains in the Rockies - Brad Snider's Mountain Blog

14ers and “Centennial 13ers”

Description: The one hundred highest summits in the Rocky Mountains all reside within the state of Colorado. This list consists of Colorado’s “14ers” (mountains above 14,000 feet) and “Centennial 13ers.” Included on this list are “ranked” mountains by Colorado standards, meaning there must be at least 300 vertical feet between the summit and its highest connecting saddle.

Climbing the hundred highest became a personal goal of mine after finishing the fourteeners in 2012. In all, the project took me 18 years to complete, only three years of which I was actually living in Colorado. It was quite a journey!

BONUS: Just to be thorough and for the sake of avoiding argument, I also climbed the other eleven peaks that are not on this list. These are the USGS officially-named, but “unranked” mountains in Colorado above 13,809 feet: Mount Cameron, El Diente, Conundrum Peak, North Eolus, North Maroon Peak, Gemini Peak, Frasco Benchmark, Meeker Ridge, Traver Peak, Mount Spalding, and Iowa Peak.

14ers
Rank	Mountain	Height	Range	Date Climbed
1.	Mount Elbert	14,433	Sawatch	8/15/2004
2.	Mount Massive	14,421	Sawatch	7/5/2004
3.	Mount Harvard	14,420	Sawatch	8/8/2006
4.	Blanca Peak	14,345	Sangre de Cristo	6/22/2011
5.	La Plata Peak	14,336	Sawatch	8/7/2004
6.	Uncompahgre Peak	14,309	San Juan	5/27/2006
7.	Crestone Peak	14,294	Sangre de Cristo	7/24/2005
8.	Mount Lincoln	14,286	Tenmile/Mosquito	5/8/2004
9.	Grays Peak	14,270	Front	11/24/2003
10.	Mount Antero	14,269	Sawatch	5/7/2006
11.	Torreys Peak	14,267	Front	7/3/2004
12.	Castle Peak	14,265	Elk	6/9/2005
13.	Quandary Peak	14,265	Tenmile/Mosquito	10/7/2005
14.	Mount Evans	14,264	Front	3/12/2005
15.	Longs Peak	14,255	Front	3/5/2005
16.	Mount Wilson	14,246	San Juan	7/29/2009
17.	Mount Shavano	14,229	Sawatch	4/9/2006
18.	Mount Belford	14,197	Sawatch	10/22/2005
19.	Crestone Needle	14,197	Sangre de Cristo	7/24/2005
20.	Mount Princeton	14,197	Sawatch	10/14/2004
21.	Mount Yale	14,196	Sawatch	7/11/2004
22.	Mount Bross	14,172	Tenmile/Mosquito	5/8/2004
23.	Kit Carson Peak	14,165	Sangre de Cristo	5/20/2006
24.	Maroon Peak	14,156	Elk	8/3/2006
25.	Tabeguache Peak	14,155	Sawatch	4/9/2006
26.	Mount Oxford	14,153	Sawatch	8/23/2007
27.	Mount Sneffels	14,150	San Juan	7/25/2009
28.	Mount Democrat	14,148	Tenmile/Mosquito	5/8/2004
29.	Capitol Peak	14,130	Elk	7/23/2006
30.	Pikes Peak	14,110	Front	2/6/2007
31.	Snowmass Mountain	14,092	Elk	7/2/2012
32.	Mount Eolus	14,083	San Juan	8/22/2010
33.	Windom Peak	14,082	San Juan	8/21/2010
34.	Challenger Point	14,081	Sangre de Cristo	5/20/2006
35.	Mount Columbia	14,073	Sawatch	8/8/2006
36.	Missouri Mountain	14,067	Sawatch	8/23/2007
37.	Humboldt Peak	14,064	Sangre de Cristo	9/30/2004
38.	Mount Bierstadt	14,060	Front	3/12/2005
39.	Sunlight Peak	14,059	San Juan	8/21/2010
40.	Handies Peak	14,048	San Juan	8/26/2010
41.	Culebra Peak	14,047	Sangre de Cristo	6/24/2011
42.	Ellingwood Point	14,042	Sangre de Cristo	6/22/2011
43.	Mount Lindsey	14,042	Sangre de Cristo	6/10/2006
44.	Little Bear Peak	14,037	Sangre de Cristo	7/8/2006
45.	Mount Sherman	14,036	Tenmile/Mosquito	6/22/2004
46.	Redcloud Peak	14,034	San Juan	8/25/2010
47.	Pyramid Peak	14,018	Elk	7/20/2006
48.	Wilson Peak	14,017	San Juan	7/30/2009
49.	Wetterhorn Peak	14,015	San Juan	7/27/2009
50.	San Luis Peak	14,014	San Juan	7/11/2004
51.	Mount of the Holy Cross	14,005	Sawatch	7/31/2004
52.	Huron Peak	14,003	Sawatch	9/20/2004
53.	Sunshine Peak	14,001	San Juan	8/25/2010
Centennial 13ers
54.	Grizzly Peak	13,988	Sawatch	7/3/2016
55.	Stewart Peak	13,983	San Juan	7/16/2021
56.	Columbia Point	13,980	Sangre de Cristo	5/20/2006
57.	Pigeon Peak	13,972	San Juan	7/10/2021
58.	Mount Ouray	13,971	Sawatch	7/22/2018
59.	Fletcher Mountain	13,951	Tenmile/Mosquito	10/15/2005
60.	Ice Mountain	13,951	Sawatch	7/6/2013
61.	Pacific Peak	13,950	Tenmile/Mosquito	11/15/2004
62.	Cathedral Peak	13,943	Elk	7/5/2016
63.	French Mountain	13,940	Sawatch	7/10/2015
64.	Mount Hope	13,933	Sawatch	5/14/2005
65.	“Thunder Pyramid”	13,932	Elk	6/11/2016
66.	Mount Adams	13,931	Sangre de Cristo	9/6/2020
67.	Gladstone Peak	13,913	San Juan	7/28/2020
68.	Mount Meeker	13,911	Front	1/21/2005
69.	Casco Peak	13,908	Sawatch	7/10/2015
70.	Red Mountain	13,908	Sangre de Cristo	6/24/2011
71.	Emerald Peak	13,904	Sawatch	8/23/2007
72.	Horseshoe Mountain	13,898	Tenmile/Mosquito	12/20/2005
73.	“Phoenix Peak”	13,895	San Juan	8/6/2019
74.	Vermilion Peak	13,894	San Juan	7/26/2018
75.	Cronin Peak	13,870	Sawatch	5/7/2006
76.	Mount Buckskin	13,865	Tenmile/Mosquito	9/12/2016
77.	Vestal Peak	13,864	San Juan Range	7/7/2021
78.	Jones Mountain	13,860	San Juan	8/15/2016
79.	North Apostle Peak	13,860	Sawatch	7/6/2013
80.	Clinton Peak	13,857	Tenmile/Mosquito	10/28/2004
81.	Dyer Mountain	13,855	Tenmile/Mosquito	6/22/2004
82.	Crystal Peak	13,852	Tenmile/Mosquito	11/15/2004
83.	Mount Edwards	13,850	Front	6/21/2006
84.	California Peak	13,849	Sangre de Cristo	9/5/2020
85.	Mount Oklahoma	13,845	Sawatch	9/11/2016
86.	Atlantic Peak	13,841	Tenmile/Mosquito	11/15/2004
87.	Hagerman Peak	13,841	Elk	9/10/2005
88.	Half Peak	13,841	San Juan	7/30/2020
89.	Turret Peak	13,835	San Juan	7/11/2021
90.	Point 13,832	13,832	San Juan	8/25/2010
91.	Holy Cross Ridge	13,831	Sawatch	7/31/2004
92.	Jupiter Mountain	13,830	San Juan	7/20/2020
93.	“Huerfano Peak”	13,828	Sangre de Cristo	6/10/2006
94.	Jagged Mountain	13,824	San Juan	7/22/2020
95.	“Lackawanna Peak”	13,823	Sawatch	5/7/2005
96.	Mount Silverheels	13,822	Front	4/3/2005
97.	Rio Grande Pyramid	13,821	San Juan	8/4/2019
98.	Teakettle Mountain	13,819	San Juan	8/14/2016
99.	Point 13,811	13,811	San Juan	8/25/2010
100.	Dallas Peak	13,809	San Juan	8/13/2016

References:
Roach, G. and Roach, J. (2001). Colorado’s Thirteeners. 13,800 to 13,999 Feet. From Hikes to Climbs. Fulcrum Publishing.
(All photographs by Brad Snider unless otherwise noted).