Pikes Peak (disambiguation)
Pikes Peak (formerly Pike's Peak) is the eponymic mountain in the Colorado Front Range of the Rocky Mountains
Pikes Peak may also refer to:
- Pike's Peak Forest Reserve, a Pike National Forest area
- Pike's Peak Gold Rush, an 1858-1861 gold rush
- Pike's Peak Country, the broad state region in the central Colorado Front Range to which "Fifty-Niner" miners trekked during the gold rush
- Pikes Peak Region, the local region near the mountain (Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area on the east side)
- Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, an arts organization
- Mineralogy of the Pikes Peak Region
- Pikes Peak Center, a Colorado Springs facility serving the local region
- Pikes Peak Christian School, a parochial school in the region
- Pikes Peak Community College, a college with branches throughout the region's
- Pikes Peak Derby Dames, the region's flat track roller derby team
- Pike's Peak Grange No. 163
- Pikes Peak Greenway
- Pikes Peak Library District, the municipal library system
- Pikes Peak or Bust
- Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo, the region's rodeo
- Pikes Peak Prep
- Pikes Peak Ringers
- Pikes Peak Writers Conference
- United States Army Pike's Peak Research Laboratory
- Various chapters of regional organizations, e.g., the Pikes Peak Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Pike's Peak Region Alumni Association of Sigma Chi, Pikes Peak chapter of Veterans Car Club of America, Public Relations Society of America Pikes Peak, American Red Cross Pikes Peak Chapter, Pikes Peak chapter of the National Space Society, etc.
- Pikes Peak granite, a geological formation found in the broad state region
- Pikes Peak Region, the local region near the mountain (Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area on the east side)
- Pike's Peak Country, the broad state region in the central Colorado Front Range to which "Fifty-Niner" miners trekked during the gold rush
- Pikes Peak Highway, a tollway to the summit
- Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, an annual time trial auto race on the highway
- Pikes Peak International Raceway, a former NASCAR auto speedway south of Colorado Springs
- Pikes Peak Marathon, an annual footrace from Manitou Springs on Barr Trail to the summit
Places beyond Colorado
- Pikes Peak (Iowa), a bluff rising 500 feet above the Mississippi River near the town of McGregor, Iowa
- Pikes Peak, Indiana, an unincorporated settlement
- Pikes Peak (Missouri)
- Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway
- Pikes Peak State Park, a state park in Iowa
Other uses
- Pike's Peak (album), a 1962 album by vibraphonist Dave Pike
- Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad
- Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company
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