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Loveland Ski Area is located north west of the pass, and Arapahoe Basin is on the south/southeast side. The pass itself is a popular destination for backcountry skiers. Occasionally during the winter, the pass road may be closed by a blizzard and all traffic must use the tunnel, even the normally forbidden vehicles carrying hazardous materials.
Loveland Pass [h] 11,992 feet 3,655 m ... Gravel except asphalt over pass former SH 135 ... former Monarch Pass Toll Road
Engineers recommended tunneling under the pass, rather than attempt to build a route across conforming to Interstate Highway standards. [12] The Eisenhower–Johnson Memorial Tunnel was known as the Straight Creek Tunnel during construction, [13] named for the waterway that runs along the western approach to the tunnel. Before the tunnel was ...
State Highway 66 (SH 66) is a 22.7 mi (36.5 km) long east-west state highway in Boulder and Weld counties in Colorado.The highway extends from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at a junction with U.S. Route 36 (US 36) and SH 7 southeast of Lyons, proceeding east through the northern edge of Longmont, to Platteville where it ends at US 85.
The segment from Leadville to Climax was paved by 1936, and the entire route was paved by 1954. In 1938, route 91 became US 6, until US 6 was rerouted over Vail Pass in 1941, leaving the portion of route 91 from Copper Mountain (formerly Wheeler Junction) to Leadville as the surviving part of this historic highway. [2]
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The US 6 corridor crosses two passes: Loveland Pass, at an elevation of 11,992 feet (3,655 m), and Vail Pass, at 10,666 feet (3,251 m). [2] Engineers recommended tunneling under Loveland Pass to bypass the steep grades and hairpin curves required to navigate US 6. The project was originally called the Straight Creek Tunnel, after the waterway ...
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