Mount Columbia (Colorado)

For the Canadian fourteener, see Mount Columbia (Canada).

Mount Columbia is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,077-foot (4,291 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.9 miles (16.0 km) northwest by west (bearing 301°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named by Roger W. Toll in honor of his alma mater, Columbia University,^[1][2][3][4] and in commemoration of its rowing victory at the renowned Henley Royal Regatta in 1878.^[6]

Mount Columbia
Mount Columbia as seen from Mount Harvard
Highest point
Elevation	14,077 ft (4,291 m)[1][2]
Prominence	893 ft (272 m)[3]
Parent peak	Mount Harvard
Isolation	1.90 mi (3.06 km)[3]
Listing	Colorado Fourteener 35th
Coordinates	38°54′14″N 106°17′51″W[1]
Geography
Mount Columbia Colorado
Location	Chaffee County, Colorado, U.S.[4]
Parent range	Sawatch Range, Collegiate Peaks[3]
Topo map(s)	USGS 7.5' topographic map Mount Columbia, Colorado[1]
Climbing
First ascent	1916 by Roger Toll[citation needed]
Easiest route	West Slopes: Hike, class 2[5]

Mountain

Along with nearby Mount Harvard, Mount Yale, Mount Princeton, and Mount Oxford, Mount Columbia is one of five Collegiate Peaks named for prominent universities. The forest service recommends that hikers take the Horn Fork Basin Route, an 11-mile roundtrip that gains 5,800 feet in elevation.^[7] In 2021, the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative^[8] completed a new trail on Mount Columbia's west slopes, bypassing the old user-created trail through a notoriously eroded scree field.^[9]

See also

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• Mountains portal

• List of mountain peaks of Colorado
  • List of Colorado fourteeners