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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.
The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA; pronounced / r æ f t ə /) is an agency that operates public transportation for the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado.RFTA's service area stretches 70 miles (110 km) from Aspen to Rifle, serving the towns in between consisting of Basalt, Snowmass Village, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, New Castle, and Silt.
The Town of Carbondale is a home rule municipality located in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town population was 6,434 at the 2020 United States census . [ 4 ] Carbondale is a part of the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area .
The Roaring Fork Valley is part of the larger Roaring Fork Watershed, which includes the Fryingpan and Crystal River valleys. The valley extends for approximately 50 mi (80 km) southeast to northwest from Aspen northwest to Glenwood Springs at the mouth of the Roaring Fork on the Colorado River, ranging in width between 1 and 5 mi (1.6 and 8.0 km).
The route was established in the 1920s, when SH 133 began at SH 135 in Bardine and ended at Carbondale. SH 133 was then reroutes from SH 135 at Crested Butte to Carbondale by 1936. The route's south terminus was adjusted back to Bardine in 1939, and a small gap at McClure pass was opened.
Colorado Springs is located in the Pikes Peak area in El Paso County, along the Front Range [1]: 14 a forty-mile corridor from the city up to Fort Carson. [2] At the edge of the southern Rocky Mountains, [1]: 31 it is bordered by State, National Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management land.
I-25 in Colorado Springs: I-25 Bus. (now US 87) in Colorado Springs 1963: 2007 Decommissioned in October 2007 as part of a highway swap to number Powers Boulevard as SH 21; signage was not removed until spring 2008; now Fillmore Street SH 39: 7.57: 12.18 I-76 in Wiggins: SH 144 near Jackson Lake State Park: 1938: current SH 40
The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado, it is higher than the high-points of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.