Pike First Sighting Marker

On November 15, 1806 Zebulon Pike saw the peak to be named after him for the first time. Today a marker stands in the general vicinity of this site. The bronze plaque with Pike looking through his spy glass and a quote from his journal about the sighting is mounted on a five ton slab of red granite from Pikes Peak. The remote area in which the marker is located provides the visitor some of the same experience that Pike and his men felt on that historic day.