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As late as 1905, the highest pass over the main chain that had a carriage road was the Great St Bernard (2,472 m (8,111 ft)), but three still higher passes over side ridges have roads—the col de l'Iseran, the Stelvio Pass (2,760 m (9,040 ft)), the Col du Galibier (2,658 m (8,721 ft)), in the Dauphiné Alps, and the Umbrail Pass (2,512 m ...
Sign on the alpine route at Piz Uccello, Switzerland Swiss signs: hiking trails in yellow, mountain path in white-red-white, Alpine Route in white-blue-white. An alpine route (German: Alpine Routen) or high alpine route (German: Hochalpine Routen) is a trail or climbing route through difficult terrain in high mountains such as the Alps, sometimes with no obvious path.
In the Alps between Kerns, Obwalden and Dallenwil, Nidwalden Alpe di Neggia: 1,395 metres (4,577 ft) In the Alps in the canton of Ticino between Gambarogno and Indemini: Pas de Morgins: 1,369 metres (4,491 ft) In the Alps on the Swiss-French border between Monthey, Valais and Abondance, France Kunkels: 1,357 metres (4,452 ft)
Image credits: Ibis_Wolfie In the 1930s, Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers from General Drafting Co. were making a road map of New York state. They decided to make up a fictitious hamlet called ...
The Via Claudia Augusta is an ancient Roman road, which linked the valley of the Po River with Rhaetia (encompassing parts of modern Eastern Switzerland, Northern Italy, Western Austria, Southern Germany and all of Liechtenstein) across the Alps. The route still exists, and since the 1990s increased interest in long-distance hiking and cycling ...
U.S. Route 28 (former); New England Interstate Route 28 (former); Alabama State Route 28; Arkansas Highway 28; California State Route 28. County Route A28 (California) County Route J28 (California)
The Route des Grandes Alpes at the Col du Lautaret, towards the Col du Galibier. The Route des Grandes Alpes is a tourist itinerary through the French Alps between Lake Geneva and the French Riviera passing over all the high passes of the Alps within France. [1] [2] The road starts at Thonon-les-Bains and climbs via Les Gets and Cluses.
NY 28B was a spur route connecting NY 28 in Remsen to Prospect in Oneida County. When the route was initially assigned c. 1936, it began at NY 12 and NY 28 in Barneveld and overlapped with then-NY 287 to Prospect, from where NY 28B continued northwest to NY 12 and NY 28 in Remsen by way of Prospect Road.