The Spanish Peaks have long been an important monument for generations of people who have called southern Colorado home. The indigenous Comanche people referred to these formations as "Wahatoya ...

Geographically the two distinctive summits known as the Spanish Peaks on the horizon west of Walsenburg are part of the Rocky Mountains. But geologically, they’re different. They weren’t ...

If you’ve driven the mostly flat stretch of I-25 in Colorado from Pueblo to Trinidad, you’ve seen them: the Spanish Peaks, twin mountains that soar into the sky out of nowhere, reaching ...

In Southern Colorado, the Spanish Peaks appear as a pair, a “double mountain” of mystical significance to Native peoples. Neither the West nor the East Spanish Peak is a fourteener, yet they ...