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The Pikes Peak Highway was constructed in 1915 and financed by Spencer Penrose at a cost of $500,000, equal to $15,059,211 today. [3] An earlier road up the mountain, the Pike's Peak Carriage Road, dates back to 1888. Thousands of tourists traveled along the Pikes Peak Carriage Road up to Pikes Peak's summit. It was opened by the Cascade Town ...
Vehicles are stuck during a snowstorm on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, in Sioux Falls, S.D. A brutal winter storm knocked out power in California, closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming ...
Achieving a final elevation of 14,140 feet (4,310 m), this is the highest paved road in North America. The Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway approaching the summit. The road was originally planned by the Denver Mountain Parks system to link Summit Lake Park and Echo Lake Park to their lower altitude parks in the
The road over Cottonwood Pass is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the U.S., and the second highest pass with an improved road in the state (the highest is Trail Ridge Road, US HWY 34 at 12,183 ft). [2] It is the fourth-highest paved road in the state after Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway, Pikes Peak Highway, and Trail Ridge Road.
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The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, built by Simmons and completed in 1890, begins in Englemann Canyon and follows Ruxton Creek up into the Rocky Mountains for Pikes Peak. [8] The railroad climbs at an average 16% grade through the canyon past "stately spruces and jagged rocks". [ 9 ]
The race up Pikes Peak is a 12.42-mile time trial event, where one car at a time climbs the 156-turn paved scenic roadway and finishes at the summit at 14,115 feet above sea level.