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Mount of the Holy Cross

Sawatch Range

Photo: Jeremiah LaRocco, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

The figures

14,011 ftsummit

Class 2standard route

5,600 ftgain

11.25 miround trip

North Ridge — Class 2, 5,600 ft gain, 11.25 mi round trip (14ers.com, updated Jul 2026)

Weather warning for this place

No National Weather Service warning for this place when this page was built.

Get there

Trailhead: Half Moon Pass, 10,320 ft

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Peak names, ranges, elevations and positions from Wikipedia, List of Colorado fourteeners (CC BY-SA 4.0). Route class, gain, round trip and the updated month are figures from each route page on 14ers.com, which holds the route descriptions; read the page before you go. Trailhead positions from 14ers.com; Directions opens Google Maps with the trailhead as the destination and nothing else set; Map opens OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Conditions, closures and permits are the land manager's word, not ours.