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Capitol Peak

Elk Mountains (Colorado)

The figures

14,137 ftsummit
Class 4standard route
5,300 ftgain
17 miround trip

Northeast Ridge — Class 4, 5,300 ft gain, 17 mi round trip (14ers.com, updated Aug 2026)

Weather warning for this place

No National Weather Service warning for this place when this page was built.

Get there

Trailhead: Capitol Creek, 9,450 ft

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Peak names, ranges, elevations and positions from Wikipedia, List of Colorado fourteeners (CC BY-SA 4.0). Route class, gain, round trip and the updated month are figures from each route page on 14ers.com, which holds the route descriptions; read the page before you go. Trailhead positions from 14ers.com; Directions opens Google Maps with the trailhead as the destination and nothing else set; Map opens OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Conditions, closures and permits are the land manager's word, not ours.