The Rocky Mountains stretch from New Mexico up through Montana and into Canada, and the states most identified with the range — Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah — share a landscape of high peaks, mining history, and world-famous national parks.

Colorado's Mount Elbert is the highest point in the entire Rocky Mountain range at 14,440 feet, and it's the second-highest peak in the contiguous United States after California's Mount Whitney. The Continental Divide runs the length of the Rockies, splitting the country's rivers between Pacific and Atlantic drainage.

The region is also home to some of the country's most visited national parks: Yellowstone, which spans Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; Grand Teton in Wyoming; Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado; and Glacier National Park in Montana near the Canadian border.

Many towns across this region started as 19th-century mining camps chasing gold or silver before reinventing themselves as ski resorts and outdoor-recreation hubs, a transition that still shapes the local economy today.

This quiz connects capitals and regional identity across a range that most Americans recognize on sight but often struggle to place state by state.

Denver, Colorado earned its 'Mile High City' nickname because its elevation sits at exactly 5,280 feet — one mile above sea level — a spot marked on the state capitol steps. Former mining boomtowns like Leadville and Aspen in Colorado, and Park City in Utah, all trace their origins to 19th-century silver and gold rushes before reinventing themselves as outdoor-recreation and ski destinations.

Wyoming's Yellowstone, established in 1872, was the first national park not just in the US but anywhere in the world, predating the National Park Service itself by more than four decades.