Milestones Icon: Longs Peak

Each year, more than 10,000 people attempt to climb Longs Peak, the highest summit in Rocky Mountain National Park and one of Colorado’s famed “fourteeners” (mountains higher than 14,000 feet in elevation).

But the man for whom the peak is named, Stephen Harriman Long, never climbed it. In fact, he never even got close enough to touch it.

What you see from Longmont is actually two peaks – Longs Peak and Mount Meeker, sometimes referred to as the “Twin Peaks” for which many businesses in the region are named. Don’t confuse that name with “Twin Sisters,” a nearby mountain that is prominent…