Hikes on Colorado 14ers in 2023 dropped to lowest level in nearly a decade, report shows

[Pivo]

Closure of the popular Decalibron Loop near Alma is seen as the single-biggest contributor to the decline.
https://www.vaildaily.com/news/colorado ... ffic-2023/

[big_load]

Closure of the popular Decalibron Loop near Alma is seen as the single-biggest contributor to the decline.
https://www.vaildaily.com/news/colorado ... ffic-2023/

I hope the decline continues. I haven't hiked a 14er since before the pandemic, but I've had the misfortune of trying to drive in the general vicinity of them. It's a mess any day of the week.

[Jim]

Fake news. This is the real reason why visitation is down:
[ Colorado’s 14ers lost a couple feet ... ed them ]

[Alston_Neal]

@Jim_H
You beat me to it. I thought the same thing.

[tkknc]

(I wonder if the 14er graphs looks similar to the ones NPS publishes here?)

"The COVID-19 pandemic drove fourteener use to an all-time high of 415,000 estimated hikers in 2020, CFI said. Fourteener use has fallen each year since, with CFI’s 2023 count showing a 37 percent drop from the pandemic peak." This came from Colorado Public Radio, https://www.cpr.org/2024/09/03/fewer-pe ... ado-14ers/