Mount
Lindsey
For generations the peak was known simply as Old Baldy, one of many bald Rocky Mountain summits sharing that name. In 1953 the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved a petition to rename it for Malcolm Lindsey, a Denver attorney and longtime Colorado Mountain Club volunteer who spent the 1940s chaperoning the club's junior members into the mountains. A memorial plaque went up on the summit in 1955 but was stolen and never recovered.
No record documents who first climbed Old Baldy; ranchers and surveyors working the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant almost certainly reached it long before any name stuck. The standard route climbs the Northwest Gully from the Huerfano River valley, a loose Class 3 scramble to the Lindsey–Iron Nipple saddle; the route crosses private land tied to the historic land grant, and climbers need a landowner waiver to cross it.
SOURCE Wikipedia — Mount LindseyOPEN as of mid-2026, but on private Trinchera Blanca Ranch land: reopened March 2025 after a nearly 4-year closure. Every hiker (including minors) must sign the free electronic waiver in advance at mountlindseywaiver.com, and only the standard northwest gully or ridge lines from the primary trailhead are permitted — any other line is trespassing and access is revocable. Trails are unmaintained and unsupervised. Sources: mountlindseywaiver.com; The Next Summit and FOX21/KOAA coverage of the March 2025 reopening (checked July 2026).