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The Pikes Peak Highway is a 19-mile (31 km) toll road that runs from Cascade, Colorado to the summit of Pikes Peak in El Paso County, at an altitude of 14,115 feet (4,302 m). [1] It is at least partially open year-round, up to the altitude where snow removal becomes excessively difficult.
Heavy snow is expected to fall in the mountain and foothill areas of the Denver metro area and the eastern plains Tuesday, Nov, 26, 2024 through Wednesday afternoon. Pueblo-area snow forecast
Pikes Peak Toll Road 38°50′26″N 105°02′40″W / 38.84054°N 105.04442°W / 38.84054; -105.04442 ( Pikes Mountain passes traversed by unimproved roads
The byway begins at the Idaho Springs Visitor Center. Take Exit 241 off Interstate 70 for 1 mile. Stop at the Visitor Center for information, then continue on Miner Street to 13th Avenue which is State Highway 103 and continues on State Highway 5 through a corridor between the Mount Evans Wilderness where it ends near the summit of Mount Blue Sky.
Get the Colorado Springs, CO local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... burying communities in up to a foot of snow, while others were glazed with a layer of dangerous ice ...
Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 54 fourteeners, mountains more than 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) above sea level. The massif rises over 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. It is composed of a characteristic pink granite called Pikes Peak granite.
Ute Pass is located west of Colorado Springs, to the north of Pikes Peak and is located along U.S. Highway 24.From west to east, the pass traverses through Divide, Woodland Park, Green Mountain Falls, Chipita Park and Cascade. [1]
Mount Antero (/ æ n ˈ t ɛər oʊ /), historically called Antero Peak, [4] is the highest summit of the southern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,269-foot (4349.21 m) fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest , 12.2 miles (19.6 km) southwest by south ( bearing 208°) of the Town of Buena Vista ...