KDVR – If you climbed 14 years in Colorado during 2024, I was one of the thousands of outdoor enthusiasts who also summarized one of those summits.
This is according to a new report issued by the Fourteen Colorado Association, which uses corridors to determine the use of the longest peaks in Colorado. The group said that the use of long distances grew about 1.9 % in general in 2024 compared to 2023, with an estimated 265,000 day of the sheet.
The “Days Use Days” scale is used to wander around the use of long -distance walking on 14ers, as it represents one person wandering at one peak in one day, but individual enthusiasts may raise 14 years over a certain year and climb the same peak several times. The scale aims to represent the number of days of walking that occurred, but it does not represent the number of individuals who wandered the summits.
The Fourteen Colorado Association said that the biggest factors that have increased long distances in Colorado is the Decalibron episode that was reopened near Alma and the revised account of Mount Blue Sky.
However, the association said that the decreases in “several sites higher” compensate for the highest levels of use elsewhere. The association noted that the use of 14er reached its climax during the summer of 2020 in 415,000 days of wandering, but it returned steadily to the average years.
Lloyd said. Athar, CEO of the Colorado Initiative fourteen, in the association’s issuance: “Opening or closing access to long distances to a few of the fourteen major has been an important cause of volatility at long -distance hiking levels in recent years.”
“Mount Democrat became a public land in 2024 and the electronic waiver system also doubled by the landowner of the Earth’s land Lincoln, and the levels of long -distance hiking in the Decalibron ring have been effectively multiplied last year compared to 2023 when the episode was closed for half of the season.” “However, the decrease in the use of long distances on the perennial tops peaks, including the tops of gray, Torres and ELBERT Mountain, greatly compensates for this increase. The modifications also led to the modeling code to fluctuations in the estimated use of both Mount Blue Sky and Longs that greatly compensate each other.”
Long -distance walking decreased in Sawatch, Sangre De Cristo and Tenmile in 2024. Long distances were in the mosquito scope, the mountains of San Juan, the front group and the mountains of Ayes. In fact, an estimated 54 % of long -distance hiking has occurred at the earliest 12 -year -old to the metro area.
Below is the estimates of the use of long -distance walking “best guesses” provided by the Colorado Association fourteen.
| summit | Use the range | Best guess |
| Perstadt Mountain | 25,000-30,000 | More than 28,000 days |
| Peak | 25,000-30,000 | Above 26500 days |
| Blue Mountain sky | 20,000-25,000 | 20600 days |
| Mount Ellbert | 15,000-20,000 | 17200 days |
| Graiz/Torres | 15,000-20,000 | 18400 days |
| Decalibron episode | 15,000-20,000 | 15300 days |
The 14 -year -old in 2024 was Mount Bierstadt and Quandary Peak, with estimates of 25,000 to 30,000 days of manifestation. The Bresadt Trail counter seized the data that the association said indicates that the use of long -distance walking on the mountain decreased slightly in 2024 of 2023.
The group said that it changed its modeling factors to assume that most people climb 5.5 miles back and forth from Lake Sumit, instead of 17 miles from Echo Lake, which caused the Mount Blue Sky to the range from 20 to 25,000 days using the shewale.
The group estimated that the use of long distances indicates an economic impact at the state level of $ 71.9 million, based on economic spending studies conducted by economists at Colorado State University. The association noted that the study was not updated during a decade, and therefore its value is likely to be reduced.