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Wheeler Mountain is set on the Continental Divide 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west-northwest of Hoosier Pass. It is part of the Mosquito Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. It ranks as the 150th-highest peak in Colorado. [3] The summit is in Summit County, however the southwest and southeast slopes lie within Lake and Park counties ...
The Peak to Peak Scenic Byway is a 55-mile (89 km) National Forest Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Gilpin, Boulder, Larimer counties, Colorado, USA. The Peak to Peak Highway was originally built in 1918 [3] and provides views of the Front Range mountains in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It was Colorado's first ...
Wheeler Peak is the focus of the 19,661-acre (79.57 km 2) Wheeler Peak Wilderness area in the Carson National Forest. Much of the mountain area just south of the peak is on Taos Pueblo land. Some 48,000 acres (190 km 2 ) was returned to the pueblo from the Carson National Forest in 1970 [ 4 ] and another 764 acres (3.09 km 2 ) in 1996.
The 662.4-mile (1,066 km) Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway [4] in McKinley and San Juan counties, New Mexico; The 100.3-mile (161 km) Dine' Tah "Among the People" Scenic Road in Apache County, Arizona , [ 5 ] and the 26-mile (42 km) Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road [ 6 ] in Navajo County, Arizona .
US 40 – Granby, Denver, Hot Sulphur Springs, Steamboat Springs: West end of route: Grand Lake: 14.683: 23.630: West Portal Road – Grand Lake and Village: former SH 278: Rocky Mountain National Park: 16.3: 26.2: Grand Lake Entrance Station Rocky Mountain National Park entrance fee required: 25.7: 41.4: Colorado River Trailhead Eastbound road ...
The southwestern tablelands comprise an ecoregion running from east-central to south-east Colorado, east-central and a small portion of eastern New Mexico, some eastern portions of the Oklahoma Panhandle, far south-central Kansas, and portions of northwest Texas. This ecoregion has a "cold semiarid" climate (Köppen BSk).
Established as the Wheeler Peak Wild Area in 1960, [1] 6,051 acres (2,449 ha) the area was re-designated the Wheeler Peak Wilderness in 1964 with the passage of the Wilderness Act. The area was expanded by 14,700 acres (5,900 ha) in 1980 with the passage of the New Mexico Wilderness Act. [2]
The Tracks Across Borders Scenic and Historic Byway is an 89-mile (143 km) Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in La Plata and Archuleta counties, Colorado, USA.From Durango, Colorado, the southern terminal of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a National Historic Landmark, the byway follows the roadbed of the historic narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ...