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scenic drive
13 Porch Notes tagged “scenic drive,” from counties across Colorado.
Cars and driving - La Plata County
From Durango, the San Juan Skyway loops a whole mountain range
Durango anchors one end of the San Juan Skyway, a 232-mile loop through the San Juans that the federal government has named an All-American Road.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Chaffee County
Cottonwood Pass west of Buena Vista closes for the winter
Cottonwood Pass climbs out of Buena Vista to over 12,000 feet on the Continental Divide, and the road over the top is closed by snow for much of the year.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Dolores County
The San Juan Skyway's Dolores County leg: Highway 145 over Lizard Head Pass
Highway 145 north from Rico carries a stretch of the 236-mile San Juan Skyway over Lizard Head Pass, where the road opens to the Wilson group of fourteeners.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Denver County
Fillius Park is an old foothills stop on the scenic drive
Fillius Park, a 1914 Denver Mountain Park on Highway 74, was built around the simple act of pausing to look west.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Mesa County
Rim Rock Drive: a road shaped by hand through the canyons
A 23-mile cliff-edge drive through Colorado National Monument, built largely by Depression-era crews and the CCC, with three rock tunnels and a string of canyon overlooks.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Summit County
Boreas Pass Road is a seasonal dirt route over the Continental Divide
Boreas Pass Road is a gentle gravel road from Breckenridge over the Continental Divide that is open to highway-legal vehicles only in the warmer months and becomes a winter ski route.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Mesa County
Driving up the Grand Mesa: 63 miles onto the world's largest flat-top mountain
State Highway 65 climbs 63 miles up onto the Grand Mesa, past more than 300 lakes to a forested tableland that sits a mile above the valley floor.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Gilpin County
The "Oh My God" Road is the back way to Idaho Springs - and a drive in itself
Virginia Canyon Road is an unpaved shelf route between Central City and Idaho Springs, full of old mine country and hairpin turns, that rewards a dry-day, daylight plan.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Saguache County
Cochetopa Pass: the old 'Pass of the Buffalo' over the Divide
Northwest of Saguache, a quiet gravel backway carries the old Ute 'Pass of the Buffalo' over the Continental Divide, while paved Highway 114 takes the easy modern route alongside it.
Read note ->Water and land - Moffat County
Irish Canyon: a short drive through deep time on the way to Browns Park
A narrow red, green, and gray canyon off Highway 318 packs layered rock and Fremont-era petroglyphs into one easy stop before Browns Park.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Eagle County
Shrine Pass Road connects Vail Pass to Red Cliff over a dirt route
Shrine Pass Road is a Forest Service dirt road from Vail Pass down to the town of Red Cliff, a scenic drive in summer whose opening and closing shift with the seasons.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Fremont County
Skyline Drive above Cañon City is a one-way road on a thin ridge
Skyline Drive west of Cañon City runs one direction along a narrow hogback ridge, so it is a road to take slowly and on purpose, not a shortcut.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Weld County
The Pawnee Bird Tour is a self-guided drive across the grassland
The Pawnee Bird Tour is a marked self-guided driving route on grassland county roads in Weld County, built around the area's well-known birdlife.
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