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      • The Clear Creek County commissioners voted to rename the mountain in March 2022 and the decision then went to the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, which voted in favor of the change in November 2022.
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  1. Sep 15, 2023 · Last November, Colorado's Geographic Naming Advisory Board unanimously recommended approving the change to Mount Blue Sky, a name supported by the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. The recommendation went to Gov. Jared Polis, who forwarded it to the federal naming board.

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  3. Sep 15, 2023 · Mount Evans, the Colorado fourteener named after the state's disgraced territorial governor John Evans, has been given a new name -- Mount Blue Sky -- by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

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  4. Sep 15, 2023 · The mountain that towers high above Metro Denver was renamed Friday as Mount Blue Sky. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names decided to rename 14,265-foot Mount Evans during a virtual...

  5. On November 17, 2022, the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory recommended unanimously that the name be changed to Mount Blue Sky. On March 3, 2023, Governor Jared Polis formally asked the United States Board on Geographic Names to rename the mountain to Mount Blue Sky.

  6. Sep 25, 2023 · Mount Evans is now officially named Mount Blue Sky. Those who helped make this change possible celebrated at Chief Hosa Lodge in Golden Sunday morning. The ceremony started with a prayer ...

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  7. Sep 16, 2023 · The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted overwhelmingly to change Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky at the request of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and with the approval of Colorado Gov....

  8. 5 days ago · In 1895, the mountain was officially named “Mount Evans,” after John Evans, the second territorial governor of Colorado. The name Mount Rosalie was then moved to a 13,575' peak about three miles southeast. In 2023, Mount Evans was renamed Mount Blue Sky.

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