The road over Cottonwood Pass between Buena Vista and Almont, in south-central Colorado, is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the United States. The pass, Chaffee County Road ...

The road over Cottonwood Pass between Buena Vista and Almont, in south-central Colorado, is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the United States. The pass, Chaffee County Road ...

The pass now shares the name of a town supposedly built from a silver discovery on July 4, 1879. Following booms in Leadville, mining spread to this side of the Continental Divide, paving the way ...