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Up the Elk

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Barr Trail, Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, 80829, United States
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Climb Profile

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Climb Stats

Combined metric and imperial stats for quick route planning.

Climb categoryCategory 2
Distance8.48 km / 5.27 miles
Elevation gain645.7 m / 2,118 ft
Average gradient5.8%
Maximum gradient32.3%
Elevation high3,602.9 m / 11,821 ft
Elevation low3,107.2 m / 10,194 ft
Climb difficulty score49,159.06

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Climb Rank

How does this climb compare against every other climb in the world?

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This climb ranks 38,993rd out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

🧮

Ranked as the 2,518th most difficult cycling climb of all 337,250 climbs in United States.

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Places 418th out of 13,296 cycling climbs in Colorado.

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Ranks 31st out of 1,880 cycling climbs in El Paso County.

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A local climb of note, this is the 9th most difficult cycling climb (out of 72 climbs) in Manitou Springs.

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