The Continental Divide Trail lends perspective: This state houses some 650 miles of the route running more than 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada. ... Independence Pass. 063024-news-ghosttown.jpg.

Independence Pass is the highest paved state highway in Colorado, crossing the Continental Divide at 12,095 feet. The summit is located 18 miles west of Twin Lakes and 19 miles east of Aspen.

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Independence Pass is about to emerge from its long, winter slumber. The stretch of Colorado Highway 82 crossing the 12,095-foot Continental Divide usually opens for Memorial Day weekend, but the ...

The Aspen-based nonprofit has been plugging away since the mid-1990s on removing remnants of aluminum snow fencing that was erected by the U.S. Forest Service along the Continental Divide at the ...

Colorado road crews close Independence Pass as winter weather approaches. ... At that point they will evaluate whether the road that runs over the Continental Divide will close for the season or not.

In 1879 a group of Leadville, Colorado entrepreneurs created the Farwell Consolidated Mining Company. In 1880 they built a stamp mill in Independence, which according to Uncover Colorado ...

A nationally designated scenic trail, the Continental Divide Trail stretches more than 3,030 miles from Canada to Mexico. And Steamboat Springs lands at the approximate halfway point. Two short scenic ...

Independence Pass is now open for the 2025 summer travel season. The opening marks the first time the road will be open since late October. Crews from the Colorado Department of Transportation ...

The Continental Divide Trail could finally be completed before it turns 50 years old. A bill introduced by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and co-sponsored by Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) would ...

Nonprofit EcoFlight showed passengers on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, the aerial views near the Continental Divide Trail that passes through Routt County as the approximate midway point of the more than ...