Grays
Peak
Botanist Charles C. Parry made the first recorded ascent in 1861 and named the peak for his colleague Asa Gray, a leading American botanist of the era; Gray himself did not see the mountain until 1872, eleven years after it carried his name. The Arapaho had already named the peak and its neighbor Torreys as a pair, calling them Heeniiyoowuu, or "ant hills."
Access to the peak runs through Bakerville, a mining settlement founded in 1865 by John Baker, William F. Kelso, and Dick Irwin below the mountain now called Kelso Mountain, itself named for Kelso. Their Baker Mine gave the town its name. Stevens Gulch Road climbs south from the old townsite toward Grays and Torreys, and hikers still reach it from the Bakerville exit off Interstate 70 to start at the upper trailhead.
SOURCE Wikipedia — Grays PeakNo fee or permit (Arapaho NF). Stevens Gulch Rd is rough and winter-closed; low-clearance vehicles park at Bakerville, adding ~6.4 mi RT (14ers.com trailhead page fr04). No shuttle or reservation system as of July 2026 (USFS Grays Peak Trailhead page). Lot fills pre-dawn on summer weekends.