A Littleton woman is petitioning the federal government to have the eastern peak of Mount Sopris named after John Denver.
J.P. McDaniel said she has more than 1,000 signatures in support of “John Denver Peak,” which she said would be a fitting tribute for the popular recording artist who called Aspen home from 1970 until his death in a plane crash in 1997.
She hopes to add more names to her petition before sending the request to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names later this month. Sopris is the iconic mountain near Carbondale.
McDaniel, a college professor with a doctorate in ecopsychology, said the initiative is about honoring Denver’s environmental legacy, not his celebrity status.
She said both Sopris peaks are unnamed. The petition asks only to name the eastern peak — it does not seek to rename the entire mountain.
The Aspen Times
