Phot-o' the Day: Train at Pike's Peak Summit, Manitou Springs, Colorado

The civilized way to get to the summit of Pike's Peak (14,110 ft above sea level, so you know) is to take the train.

You catch the train in Manitou Springs, outside Colorado Springs, Colorado. It's a nice little town, with upscale restaurants for the tourist gentry. The train ride is an ascent of several thousand feet into a whole new climate zone. It was may when I was there, and, up at the summit, it was still the dead of winter. I'm guessing it is almost always the dead of winter up there.

Visited May 2007.