Colorado Mountains & Passes: Day Trips in the RockiesSome of the most amazing views you will ever see from your car are in Colorado. It is relatively easy to climb to more than 10,000 feet on many of the drives showcased in this book. An excellent map and detail directions can send you to new heights! |
Contents
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Traversing the Mountains | 7 |
The Continental Divide | 9 |
Timberline Country | 10 |
The Mountain Ranges | 11 |
Peak to Peak Highway | 15 |
Trail Ridge Road | 16 |
Arapaho Pass | 18 |
Red Mountain and Lizard Head Passes | 30 |
Cinnamon and Engineer Passes | 32 |
Guanella Pass | 33 |
Mount Evans | 34 |
Mosquito Pass | 35 |
Ten Mile and Mosquito Range Loop | 36 |
Boreas Pass | 37 |
Hoosier Pass | 38 |
Rollins Pass | 19 |
Cameron Pass | 20 |
Rabbit Ears and Gore Passes | 21 |
Marshall Pass | 22 |
CreedeCochetopa Pass | 23 |
Wolf Creek and Cumbres Passes | 26 |
Sangre de Cristos | 27 |
La Veta Pass Great Sand Dunes Natl Monument | 28 |
Lake CitySlumgullion Pass | 29 |
Shrine and Tennessee Passes | 39 |
Pikes Peak | 40 |
Cottonwood Pass | 41 |
Cumberland Pass | 42 |
Ohio Pass | 43 |
Kebler Pass | 44 |
Schofield and McClure Passes | 45 |
AspenIndependence Pass | 46 |
Common terms and phrases
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