The Pikes Peak Summit House produced about 500,000 donuts each year, but making the pastry at that altitude is no easy feat. The Pikes Peak Summit House has used a special recipe to fry donuts at ...

Standing outside Station 8 in southeast Colorado Springs with a drone high overhead, Halsey was able to zoom into a blurry but unmistakable view of the Pikes Peak summit house more than 20 miles away.

For something more intimate, the Avenue Hotel Bed and Breakfast occupies a beautifully restored 1886 Victorian house. Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center: where oxygen is optional, views are mandatory, ...

Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center: where oxygen is optional, views are mandatory, and your camera will work overtime. Photo Credit: Doug Clipsham The Cliff House at Pikes Peak stands as the grand dame ...

Rather indulge in something sweet? The doughnuts served at the Pikes Peak Summit House lay claim to fame as the only ones made more than 14,000 feet above sea level. Sally's Apizza in New Haven ...

The Summit House gift shop is the perfect place to find souvenirs that commemorate your trip to Pikes Peak. From T-shirts and postcards to locally crafted goods and books about the area, there’s ...

The race against the clock pits drivers against a 12.42-mile stretch of road leading up to the Pikes Peak summit, with 156 corners, 4,720 feet of elevation gain, and almost no guard rails.

Bill Carle has help clearing snow from the Summit House atop Pikes Peak on April 18, 1962. (Photo by Ed Maker/Denver Post file) Business was good after World War II, and she added the old Hidden ...

Carle’s family, often billed as Colorado’s “first family of tourism,” has been associated with the Summit House atop Pikes Peak, the Crest House atop then-Mount Evans, Echo Lake Lodge and stores at ...

At the top, be sure to grab one of the famously fresh doughnuts at Pikes Peak Summit House and admire the 360 ... and this railroad (in operation since 1880) offers one of the best ways to see ...