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View to the south into the snaking West Fork of the San Juan River as seen from US 160, halfway up to the pass The tunnel on the east side of the pass, opened in 2005.. Wolf Creek Pass, once a two-lane road winding through the San Juan Mountains between South Fork, Colorado, and Pagosa Springs, has been expanded into a multi-lane highway, greatly increasing the traffic capacity of the pass and ...
It then goes northeast and crosses the Continental Divide at Wolf Creek Pass, the area made popular in 1975 in C.W. McCall's album Wolf Creek Pass. US 160 in La Veta Pass. From Wolf Creek Pass, US 160 continues northeast and turns east at South Fork. At Monte Vista, an overlap begins with US 285, which continues southeast into Alamosa. It turns ...
The Eisenhower Tunnel, officially the Eisenhower–Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel, [1] is a dual-bore, four-lane vehicular tunnel in the western United States, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The tunnel carries Interstate 70 (I-70) under the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. With a maximum elevation of 11,158 ...
This command center also monitors the tunnels under Wolf Creek Pass along US 160. The height limit for vehicles is 16'4" (not oversize loads) History. Construction began on the Glenwood Canyon Area in 1980, being one of the last portions of the Interstate highway system to be completed. The tunnels were completed in 1992 as part of the larger ...
Spring Creek Pass [h] 10,901 feet ... Wolf Creek Pass [h] 10,857 feet 3,309 m 6.8% Asphalt Marshall Pass [h] ... (Carlton Tunnel
38°49′40″N 106°24′33″W / 38.82778°N 106.40917°W / 38.82778; -106.40917. A. Cottonwood Pass. 12,126 ft (3,696 m) Chaffee County Road 306 and Gunnison County Road 209. Until 2019, the highest unpaved road crossing of a pass in Colorado; now the highest paved crossing of Divide in US.
Poland Tunnel, abandoned pedestrian tunnel between the ghost towns of Poland and Walker, south of Prescott. Mule Pass Tunnel, 1,400-ft long, road SR 80, Bisbee, Arizona. Deck Park Tunnel, 2,887-ft twin road tunnels, Interstate 10, Phoenix. Queen Creek Tunnel, 1,200-ft road US 60, just east of Superior.
The railroad tunnel is 24 feet (7.3 m) high, 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, and 6.2 miles (10.0 km) long. The apex of the tunnel is at 9,239 feet (2,816 m) above sea level. The tunnel has a gradient of 1 in 125 (0.8%). [3] As of 1989, the Moffat was the fourth-longest railroad tunnel in North America.