Spanish Peaks Wilderness

Spanish Peaks Wilderness is a 19,226-acre protected area in southern Colorado within San Isabel National Forest, centered on East and West Spanish Peak. Rising roughly 7,000 feet above the surrounding plains, the twin summits long served as a major landmark for travelers and are known together as the Double Mountain, a name echoed in the Comanche term often rendered as Wahatoya, Huajatolla, or Guajatoyah. The peaks also hold traditional and religious importance for Apache, Comanche, and Ute peoples. Geologically distinct from the nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains, they are igneous stocks surrounded by dramatic radiating rock dikes that make the area especially significant.

Colorado · United States