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Hunchback Pass: 12,500 feet 3,810 m Continental Divide Trail ... Trail Rider Pass: 12,421 feet 3,786 m Cony Pass: 12,418 feet 3,785 m ...
Yellowhead Pass: 1,131 m (3,711 ft) near Jasper, Alberta. Canadian Northern Railway (1910), north branch of the Trans-Canada Highway. Pacific or Arctic Ocean drainage. E: Athabasca Pass: 1,753 m (5,751 ft) Main fur-trade pass from 1811. Used by the York Factory Express. Pacific or Arctic Ocean drainage.
Crossing the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass; the Lewis and Clark Expedition traversed the pass on August 12, 1805. Northbounders leaving Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming enter the Centennial Mountains of Idaho. For the next 358 miles (576 km) the trail closely follows the border of Idaho and Montana, which is also the Continental Divide.
Narrow gauge, replaced by standard gauge Tennessee Pass Tunnel: Tennessee Pass: Colorado: 10,239 ft (3,121 m) (1890), 10,221 ft (3,115 m) (1945) Denver and Rio Grande Railroad: Union Pacific Railroad (dormant) 1890–present (dormant since 1997) Passed through the Tennessee Pass Tunnel (original tunnel built 1890, replaced in 1945) Hagerman Pass
Argentine Pass [5] Colorado: 4025 m 13,205 ft Primitive road in Arapaho National Forest (Highest road over the Continental Divide in North America) Assiniboine Pass [5] Alberta British Columbia: 2179 m 7,149 ft
The pass is located on the Continental Divide at the northern end of the Mosquito Range, in a gap between Mount Lincoln (west) and Hoosier Ridge (east). It sits on the boundary between Park (south) and Summit (north) counties. The pass provides a route between the headwaters of the Blue River (tributary of the Colorado River) to the north and ...
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The road over Cottonwood Pass is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the U.S., and the second highest pass with an improved road in the state (the highest is Trail Ridge Road, US HWY 34 at 12,183 ft). [2] It is the fourth-highest paved road in the state after Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway, Pikes Peak Highway, and Trail Ridge Road.