Colorado's Top 7 Mountain Ranges 

Colorado can readily claim its notoriety as a mountainous state: peaks in the Rocky Mountains.

Rocky Mountain offers tourists approximately 300 miles of hiking trails in addition to a wide range of other activities.

Mount Elbert is the highest mountain in Colorado.

A leisurely 1.5-mile walk circles the lake in Maroon Bells and offers numerous opportunities for photo stops.

Longs Peak, the centerpiece of Rocky Mountain National Park, majestically rises to a height of 14,255 feet.

The road over Mount Evans is the highest paved road in the country, rising to a height of 14,260 feet.

Major Stephen H. Long, an area explorer, is named after Longs Peak.

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