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In part four, they take a deep-dive into Wyoming, discovering a vast Western-cultured state where WPMs (Wows Per Minute) are off the scale How to do the great American road trip: Montana and ...
The Peak to Peak Scenic Byway is a 55-mile (89 km) National Forest Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Gilpin, Boulder, Larimer counties, Colorado, USA. The Peak to Peak Highway was originally built in 1918 [3] and provides views of the Front Range mountains in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It was Colorado's first ...
As the road turns back northward and then slightly northwestward, the surrounding terrain turns into a more barren land dotted with occasional shrubs and grass. [2] As the road continues northwestward, the shrubs and trees become more dense along hillsides. SH 13 then crosses into Rio Blanco County, when the direction becomes straight north.
Of the most prominent summits of Wyoming, Cloud Peak and Gannett Peak both exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet) of topographic prominence. Those two peaks and Grand Teton are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence. Nine peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
The lowest elevation of the trail in Colorado is 8,044 feet (2,452 m) along the Middle Fork of the Elk River near the border with Wyoming [24] and the highest elevation in Colorado is 14,278 feet (4,352 m) at the summit of Gray's Peak. Several additional mountains with elevations of more than 14,000 feet (4,300 m) are near the trail
It is a hub from which three Wyoming Mountain Ranges radiate. The three separate directions – the Wind River Range to the southeast (Gannett Peak, 13,804 feet (4,207 m)), the Gros Ventre Range (Doubletop Peak, 11,720 feet (3,570 m)) to the west and the Absaroka Range to the north (Francs Peak, 13,153 feet (4,009 m)). The pass is 4,000 feet ...