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 ...

The mountain had been named for Colorado’s second territorial ... They included Mount Soule, Mount Rosalie, Mount Sisty, and Mount Evans – not for the controversial former territorial governor ...

Colorado’s Mount Evans is likely to get a new name soon, after years of Native American activism. The Renaming of Colorado's Mt. Evans DENVER — In a small, dimly lit room on the fourth floor ...

After a two-year brainstorming run by the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Mount Blue Sky emerged as the favored alternative to Mount Evans, which commemorates the state’s territorial Gov.

be renamed Mount Blue Sky, getting rid of the moniker attached to John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor. Historians say Evans created the conditions that led to the Sand Creek ...

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. — Federal officials on Friday renamed a towering mountain southwest of Denver as part of a national effort to address the history of oppression and violence against Native ...

Should we go for a drive then, honey?” We hopped in the car and zipped nine miles south on Colorado Highway 103 to the fee station for the Mount Evans Scenic Byway ($10 per vehicle). Known ...

Jared Polis, who forwarded it to the federal naming board. Colorado's Mount Evans name change hits mysterious snag in final hour But a request from a tribal government for a "government-to ...

Mount Evans, the 14er named after a territorial governor forced to resign following the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, could soon be renamed Mount Blue Sky. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory ...

Mount Evans was named after Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans in 1895. But attitudes toward Gov. Evans later soured due to his treatment of Native populations, and a push to rename the peak ...

The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory board took its most significant vote Thursday in its three-year history — a unanimous decision to recommend the renaming of Mount Evans, the most prominent ...

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 ...