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State Highway 82 ( SH 82) is an 85.3-mile-long (137.3 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Colorado. Its western half provides the principal transportation artery of the Roaring Fork Valley on the Colorado Western Slope, beginning at Interstate 70 (I-70) and U.S. Highway 6 (US 6) in Glenwood Springs southeast past Carbondale, Basalt and Aspen.
Interstate 70 ( I-70) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from Cove Fort, Utah, to Baltimore, Maryland. In Colorado, the highway traverses an east–west route across the center of the state. In western Colorado, the highway connects the metropolitan areas of Grand Junction and Denver via a route through ...
Glenwood Canyon is a rugged scenic 12.5 mi (20 km) canyon in western Colorado in the United States. Its walls climb as high as 1,300 feet (400 m) above the Colorado River. It is the largest such canyon on the Upper Colorado. The canyon, which has historically provided the routes of railroads and highways through western Colorado, currently ...
1883–1918. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Colorado Midland Railway ( reporting mark CM ), [ 1] incorporated in 1883, was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Hagerman Pass to Glenwood ...
Glenwood Springs is the principal city of the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area . As of the census [ 37] of 2000, there were 7,736 people, 3,216 households, and 1,926 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,611 inhabitants per square mile (622/km 2 ).
Forest Road 765 Loveland Pass [h] 11,992 feet 3,655 m 6.0% ... Colorado Travel Map; Colorado highway conditions; Colorado Tourism Office; History Colorado;
Interstate 70 ( I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to I-695 and Maryland Route 570 (MD 570) in Woodlawn, just outside Baltimore, Maryland. I-70 approximately traces the path of U.S. Route 40 (US 40; the old National Road) east of the Rocky Mountains.
Grand Hogback. Pitkin, Garfield and Rio Blanco counties, Colorado. The Grand Hogback is a 70-mile long, [2] curving, spine-like ridge in Western Colorado that extends from near McClure Pass in Pitkin County through Garfield County and then to near Meeker in Rio Blanco County. [3] The hogback is significant because it marks part of the boundary ...