Colorado 14ers & 13ers Peak and Route Scraper

Scrapes 14ers.com — the authoritative source for Colorado fourteener and thirteener climbing data — and returns a structured dataset of peaks and their individual climbing routes.

Each output record combines peak-level data (elevation, rank, mountain range, coordinates) with route-level data (route name, YDS difficulty class, trailhead, round-trip distance, elevation gain, exposure/risk notes, and standard-route flag).

What you get

Field	Type	Description
peak_name	string	Full peak name as listed on 14ers.com
elevation_ft	number	Summit elevation in feet (LiDAR measurement)
rank	integer	Colorado 14er or 13er rank by elevation
mountain_range	string	Range (e.g., Sawatch, San Juan, Elk Mountains)
latitude	number	Summit latitude (decimal degrees)
longitude	number	Summit longitude (decimal degrees)
peak_url	string	Canonical 14ers.com URL for the peak
route_name	string	Route name (e.g., Northeast Ridge)
route_class	string	YDS difficulty class (Class 1 through Class 5)
route_difficulty	string	Full difficulty label as shown on site
round_trip_miles	number	Round-trip distance from trailhead in miles
elevation_gain_ft	number	Total elevation gain in feet
trailhead	string	Named trailhead for this route
exposure_rockfall_notes	string	Exposure, rockfall, route-finding, and commitment risk ratings
standard_route	boolean	Whether this is designated a standard route for the peak

How it works

The actor discovers peaks from the 14ers.com sitemap (846 individual peak pages), then crawls each peak's route list and the individual route detail pages to collect statistics. All data is extracted from plain HTML — no JavaScript rendering required.

Coverage: ~58 Colorado 14ers and ~780+ Colorado 13ers, each with 1–11 routes.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	15	Maximum number of route records to return. Each peak has multiple routes, so this is the total record cap.

Example input

{
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example output

{
  "peak_name": "Mt. Elbert - The Highest 14er in Colorado",
  "elevation_ft": 14438,
  "rank": 1,
  "mountain_range": "Sawatch",
  "latitude": 39.11774,
  "longitude": -106.44537,
  "peak_url": "https://www.14ers.com/peaks/10001/mount-elbert",
  "route_name": "Northeast Ridge",
  "route_class": "Class 1",
  "route_difficulty": "Class 1",
  "round_trip_miles": 9.75,
  "elevation_gain_ft": 4500,
  "trailhead": "Mt. Elbert (North)",
  "exposure_rockfall_notes": "Exposure: Low Rockfall: Low Route-Finding: Low Commitment: Low",
  "standard_route": true
}

Notes

• Respects 14ers.com's robots.txt crawl delay (5 seconds), running at a polite concurrency of 5.
• Transient network errors and rate-limit responses are automatically retried.
• The site does not use Cloudflare or require browser rendering — datacenter requests succeed.
• Records per run: full dataset is ~1,200–1,500 routes across all 14ers and 13ers. Set maxItems to 0 to collect all.