Over 12 miles long, this course climbs through the Rocky Mountains up to the summit of Colorado's legendary Pikes Peak, 14,115 feet ... enormous altitude, and unpredictable environment.

Drink plenty of water to help avoid altitude sickness, no matter how you travel to the top. The entrance to the Pikes Peak Highway is located about 10 miles northwest of central Colorado Springs ...

What’s more, Colorado’s clear skies and thin atmosphere (thanks to its high elevation above sea level ... Cleveland Abbe to the summit of Pikes Peak. People and pack animals trekked 18 ...

But in the low-altitude flatlands of Ohio ... And he found a mountain with a road all the way to the top—Pikes Peak, in Colorado. Together with McCook Field engineer C. P.