A Colorado state panel suggested to change the name of Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky. The original name is tied to the massacre of more than 200 Native Americans.

Few people who grow up in Colorado need a book to tell them about 14,271-foot Mt. Evans. Most have either driven to the top, driven by it or simply gazed at what is the closest 14er to Denver. But … ...

Mount Evans, the Colorado fourteener named after the state's disgraced territorial governor John Evans, has been given a new name -- Mount Blue Sky -- by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Evans had denied any role in the massacre, in which hundreds of Colorado militia troops, led by Col. John Chivington, attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho women, children and elders on the ...

Advance Colorado seeks to change Mount Blue Sky to Mount Evans, two years after the name change. They submitted a petition to the Trump administration.

But it was Mount Blue Sky that attracted unanimous support from Colorado’s 14-member geographic naming advisory board and from the tribes that sent representatives to the meeting.

Mount Evans, the Colorado fourteener named after the state’s disgraced territorial governor, now has a new name: Mount Blue Sky. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted 15-1 on Friday afternoon to ...

Mount Blue Sky is the 14th tallest fourteener in Colorado. Last year the mountain's name was stripped of its reference to Colorado territorial governor John Evans and the Native American tribe ...

In 2017, Denver resident Mark Olmstead started a petition on Change.org to rename Mount Evans. The next year, the Denver American Indian Commission declared its support of the idea, according to ...

A group in Colorado is seeking to revert the name of Mount Blue Sky to Mount Evans, arguing the decision to scrap the name of the former territorial governor from ...

Hikers walk on the Summit Lake trail at Mount Evans in Clear Creek County on Sept. 12, 2023. The 14,265 ft. peak was renamed by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to Mount Blue Sky on Sept. 15, 2023.