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Loveland Pass, 1941. It is located on the Continental Divide in the Front Range, west of Denver on U.S. Highway 6 (US 6). The twisty road is considered to be especially treacherous during the winter months. A steep, steady 6.7% grade, along with numerous hairpin turns on either side, make it difficult to snowplow the road regularly.
English: Section of OpenStreetMap showing Loveland Pass, Colorado, with Interstate 70, including the Eisenhower Tunnel, and US 6, as well as Loveland Ski Area and Arapahoe Basin resorts. Also illustrates some issues with Cartographic generalization
The highest altitude along US 6 is 11,990 feet (3,650 m) at Loveland Pass, where it crosses the Continental Divide. It continues down the Clear Creek valley until it reaches I-70, where it is briefly overlapped until I-70 leaves the Clear Creek valley. US 6 continues down Clear Creek and into Denver, where it turns into a freeway with six lanes.
Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. ... Loveland Pass [h] 11,992 feet 3,655 m 6.0% ... United States Geological Survey.
Heading east from Bishop, California. The modern US 6 in California is a short, two-lane, north–south surface highway from Bishop to the Nevada state line. Prior to the 1964 state highway renumbering, US 6 extended to Long Beach along what is now US 395, State Route 14 (SR 14), Interstate 5 (I-5), I-110/SR 110, and SR 1.
The numbering scheme used to designate the Interstates was developed by AASHTO, an organization composed of the various state departments of transportation in the United States. [ 4 ] The Interstate Highway System covers approximately 956 miles (1,539 km) in Colorado which consists of three primary highways and two auxiliary highways .
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The US 6 corridor crosses two passes: Loveland Pass, at an elevation of 11,992 feet (3,655 m), and Vail Pass, at 10,666 feet (3,251 m). [2] Engineers recommended tunneling under Loveland Pass to bypass the steep grades and hairpin curves required to navigate US 6. The project was originally called the Straight Creek Tunnel, after the waterway ...