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The Pikes Peak Highway was constructed in 1915 and financed by Spencer Penrose at a cost of $500,000, equal to $15,059,211 today. [3] An earlier road up the mountain, the Pike's Peak Carriage Road, dates back to 1888. Thousands of tourists traveled along the Pikes Peak Carriage Road up to Pikes Peak's summit. It was opened by the Cascade Town ...
Pikes Peak Toll Road 38°50′26″N 105°02′40″W / 38.84054°N 105.04442°W / 38.84054; -105.04442 ( Pikes Mountain passes traversed by unimproved roads
The byway begins at the Idaho Springs Visitor Center. Take Exit 241 off Interstate 70 for 1 mile. Stop at the Visitor Center for information, then continue on Miner Street to 13th Avenue which is State Highway 103 and continues on State Highway 5 through a corridor between the Mount Evans Wilderness where it ends near the summit of Mount Blue Sky.
The green flag drops for the legendary race up Pikes Peak Mountain near Colorado Springs, Colorado, at 7:30 a.m. Mountain time (9:30 a.m. Eastern) on Sunday, June 26. ... The race up Pikes Peak is ...
US 24 looking out on Cascade, Colorado, viewed from the Pikes Peak Highway. In Colorado, US 24 begins at the interchange of I-70 and US 6 (exit 171) near Minturn.From this interchange, US 24 proceeds southeast through Minturn and continues south to the Continental Divide at Tennessee Pass.
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), also known as The Race to the Clouds, is an annual automobile hillclimb to the summit of Pikes Peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. The track measures 12.42 miles (19.99 km) and has over 156 turns, climbing 4,720 ft (1,440 m) from the start at mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway, to the finish at 14,115 ...
The Darling family, including their pet dog (in the car), at Pikes Peak in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. They took a family vacation in 1976 in their 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline Deluxe sedan
U.S. Highway 24 (US 24) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that travels from Minturn, Colorado, to Clarkston, Michigan. In the U.S. state of Colorado , US 24 extends from Interstate 70 (I-70) and US 6 in Minturn east to the Kansas state line where it continues as US 24 concurrent with I-70.