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I hope the decline continues. I haven't hiked a 14er since before the pandemic, but I've had the misfortune of trying to drive in the general vicinity of them. It's a mess any day of the week.Pivo wrote: ↑Sep 04 2024 2:16 pm Closure of the popular Decalibron Loop near Alma is seen as the single-biggest contributor to the decline.
https://www.vaildaily.com/news/colorado ... ffic-2023/
"The COVID-19 pandemic drove fourteener use to an all-time high of 415,000 estimated hikers in 2020, CFI said. Fourteener use has fallen each year since, with CFI’s 2023 count showing a 37 percent drop from the pandemic peak." This came from Colorado Public Radio, https://www.cpr.org/2024/09/03/fewer-pe ... ado-14ers/chumley wrote:(I wonder if the 14er graphs looks similar to the ones NPS publishes here?)