Huron
Peak

Huron Peak didn't receive an official name from the U.S. Geological Survey until 1956, among the last of Colorado's fourteeners to be formally named. Its name is disputed: some accounts trace it to a nearby Huron Mine, others to the Huron, or Wyandot, nation, and no surviving record settles which came first. The mining camp of Winfield, at the peak's foot, reached about 1,500 people at its 1890 peak before fading to a ghost town.

On July 9, 1994, a Flight for Life helicopter crashed high on Huron Peak at roughly 12,200 feet while trying to reach a hiker with a broken ankle. Pilot Gary McCall was easing one skid onto the 35-degree slope when the rotor blades struck rock; the helicopter tumbled roughly 800 feet before coming to rest, killing McCall and flight nurse Sandy Sigman. It was the first crash in the history of the Flight for Life program.