A view in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness area in the White River National Forest of Colorado. A 19 acre parcel of land in the Green Mountain area south of US Hwy 82 is now ensured to the public ...

Thanks to its stockpile of eight of Colorado’s 54 fourteeners, the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness lures folks who want to walk in the clouds—and trek through the valleys. “It’s a big roller coaster,” ...

is one of the most dramatic of the 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness area. Missouri Mountain rises out of Missouri Gulch with a ragged eastern face of steep cliffs, while the western slope ...

BUENA VISTA, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced on Tuesday that a team reintroduced boreal toad tadpoles in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness in Chaffee County. The team was led by Alex ...

While most hikers will take years to complete them all, certain subsets make great objectives for 2025, like the eight 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, or the six in the front range.

The Hunter-Fryingpan became wilderness in 1978, and the Collegiate Peaks in 1980. Of the 256,000 acres of White River National Forest land administered by the Aspen Ranger District, 63 percent is ...

A conservation group purchased 19.3 acres near the ghost town of Independence on Monday and snuffed the potential for future development of the land within the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. Wilderness ...

A 30-year-old Denver man was cited on Sunday for illegal riding in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness Area roughly 3.5 miles south of Aspen Mountain along Richmond Ridge. The Forest Service doesn’t ...

Fall is hunting season in the Elk Mountains. Every time I rocket past the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness Area sign on Richmond Ridge, I appreciate the friendly waves from hunters, scouting ...