DENVER — For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County.
Officially, Kit Carson's name has been attached to the mountain that locals refer to as Crestone Peak since 1906. And, since that year, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names has affirmed several times the decision to keep Kit Carson's name, the most recent in 2011.
On Thursday, the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board began its examination of the history of the mountain's name, following a request to consider changing it.
At 14,165 feet, Kit Carson Mountain is Colorado's 24th highest fourteener. The mountain is actually made up of three peaks. The two lower peaks already have names: Challenger Point, adopted by the federal group in 1985, and Columbia Point, adopted in 2003.
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