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The ski runs at Copper Mountain are visible in the background. / 39.53056°N 106.21722°W / 39.53056; -106.21722. Vail Pass is a 10,662 [2] -foot-high (3,250 m) mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. The pass was named for Charles Vail, a highway engineer and director of the Colorado State Highway Department from 1930 ...
Interstate 70 ( I-70) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from Cove Fort, Utah, to Baltimore, Maryland. In Colorado, the highway traverses an east–west route across the center of the state. In western Colorado, the highway connects the metropolitan areas of Grand Junction and Denver via a route through ...
The Eisenhower Tunnel, officially the Eisenhower–Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel, [ 1] is a dual-bore, four-lane vehicular tunnel in the western United States, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The tunnel carries Interstate 70 (I-70) under the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. With a maximum elevation of ...
The Colorado storm shut down a stretch of Interstate 70, the state’s main east-west highway, in the mountains for much of the day Thursday, stranding some drivers for hours, mainly because of ...
Interstate 70 ( I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to I-695 and Maryland Route 570 (MD 570) in Woodlawn, just outside Baltimore, Maryland. I-70 approximately traces the path of U.S. Route 40 (US 40; the old National Road) east of the Rocky Mountains.
Forest Road 765 Loveland Pass [h] ... Vail Pass: 10,666 feet ... Colorado highway conditions; Colorado Tourism Office; History Colorado; United States Geological Survey.
Vail was incorporated in 1966, four years after the opening of Vail Ski Resort. The ski area was founded by Pete Seibert and local rancher Earl Eaton in 1962, at the base of Vail Pass. The pass was named after Charles Vail, the highway engineer who routed U.S. Highway 6 through the Eagle Valley in 1940, which eventually became Interstate 70.
U.S. Highway 24. U.S. Highway 24 ( US 24) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that travels from Minturn, Colorado, to Clarkston, Michigan. In the U.S. state of Colorado, US 24 extends from Interstate 70 (I-70) and US 6 in Minturn east to the Kansas state line where it continues as US 24 concurrent with I-70.