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Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. ... Denver Pass: 12,907 feet 3,934 m ... former Monarch Pass Toll Road
Fort Vasquez is a former fur trading post 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Denver, Colorado, United States, founded by Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette in 1835. [3] Restored by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, it now lies in a rather incongruous position as U.S. Route 85 splits to run either side of the building.
FIPS code. 08-60160. GNIS feature ID. 0180790. Website. plattevillegov.org. Platteville is a Statutory Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,955 at the 2020 census. [6] It is adjacent to Fort Vasquez on U.S. Highway 85.
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.
Jones Pass. Jones Pass, elevation 12,454 ft (3,796 m), is a mountain pass that crosses the Continental Divide in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in the United States. The Gumlick Tunnel is a water tunnel under Jones Pass for water diversion from the upper Williams Fork east under the continental divide into the valley of ...
The ditch at the pass in October 2020, after it was shut down for the winter. Tennessee Pass is the location of the first transbasin diversion project to move water from the Colorado River Basin over the continental divide to the Arkansas River. The 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Ewing Placer Ditch (or just Ewing Ditch) was constructed in 1880 and remains ...
Wolf Creek Pass is a high mountain pass on the Continental Divide, in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. It is the route through which U.S. Highway 160 passes from the San Luis Valley into southwest Colorado on its way to New Mexico and Arizona. The pass is notable as inspiration of a C. W. McCall song. The pass is significantly steep on ...
Berthoud Pass (/ ˈbɜːrθəd / BURTH-əd; elevation 11,307 ft (3,446 m)) is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. The pass is located west of Denver, and provides a high route between upper Clear Creek Canyon to the upper valley of the Fraser River in Middle Park to ...