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The official route of the CDT in Colorado is 735.5 miles (1,183.7 km) long, [1] although several alternate routes shorten or lengthen that distance. 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 [ 25 ] and the highest elevation in Colorado is 14,278 feet ...
Highlights include the Flathead Valley in Montana; Grand Teton National Park and the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming; South Park and Boreas Pass in Colorado; and Polvadera Mesa and the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico. Colorado's Indiana Pass, at 11,913 ft (3,631 m), is the highest point on the route.
In 2021 the Colorado State Senate Joint Resolution 21-018 designated the section of U.S. 287 between SH 66 in Longmont and SH 402 in Loveland as the SPC Gabriel David Conde Memorial highway. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Gabriel Conde was a Berthoud High School graduate and a student at the Colorado School of Mines who joined the U.S. Army in 2015.
US 87 remains concurrent with Montana State Highway 200 until Great Falls. In Lewistown , it merges with US 191 and remains heading generally west. Some ten miles (16 km) out of Lewistown, it breaks with US 191 and merges with Montana State Highway 3 , heading generally northwest and merging briefly with US 89 before breaking with all three in ...
Pacific Northwest Trail from the Washington coast to the North American continental divide in Montana, 1,900 km (1,200 mi) Colorado Trail from southwestern Colorado to the Denver suburbs, 782 km (486 mi) Arizona Trail running the length of the state north - south, 1,270 km (789 mi)
Mount Blue Sky (formerly Mount Evans) is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,266.1-foot (4,348 m) fourteener is located 13.4 miles (21.6 km) southwest by south (bearing 214°) of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Clear Creek in Arapaho National ...
In 1996, it became the latest U.S. highway to travel from border to border, with the extension from Malta, Montana to the Canada–US border, absorbing former Montana Secondary Highway 242. [ citation needed ] In 2003, the remainder of US 666 between I-40 and US 191 in Monticello, Utah was renumbered US 491 .
This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado. Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads