Continental Divide
and Conquer
route
developed by Jack Brittain
Miles: 612 Continental Divide Crossings: 10
|
Time |
Miles |
Description |
|
8:00 AM |
0 |
Leave Pagosa Springs - East on US 160 |
|
|
|
Wolf Creek Pass
(10,850 ft.) |
|
|
43 |
South Fork: North onto SR-149 |
|
|
65 |
Creed, CO |
|
|
|
Spring Creek Pass
(10,901 ft.) |
|
|
|
Slumgullion Pass (11,316 ft.) |
|
|
113 |
Lake City |
|
|
160 |
Turn right (East) onto US-50 |
|
Lunch |
169 |
Gunnison |
|
|
|
Monarch Pass
(11,312 ft.) |
|
|
228 |
Turn left (North) US-285 - Poncha Springs |
|
|
249 |
Bear left onto US-24 |
|
|
270 |
Left SR-82 |
|
|
285 |
Independence Pass
(12,095 ft) |
|
|
300 |
Left US 24 |
|
|
313 |
Leadville |
|
|
321 |
Bear left US 24 to Tennessee Pass (10,424 ft) |
|
5:00 pm |
330 |
Return to Leadville |
|
|
|
END OF DAY 1 |
|
8:00 am |
|
Leadville: North on SR-91 |
|
|
|
Fremont Pass
(11,318 ft.) |
|
|
25 |
At I-70, Exit 195, East onto I-70 |
|
|
|
Vail Pass (10,666 ft.) |
|
|
36 |
Exit 205 Dillon, right (east) on US 6 |
|
|
|
Loveland Pass (11,992 ft.) |
|
|
55 |
I-70 Exit 216 East on I-70 |
|
|
83 |
Exit 244: West onto SR-119 |
|
|
104 |
East onto SR-72 |
|
|
128 |
North onto SR-7 |
|
|
138 |
West onto US-36 |
|
Lunch |
139 |
Estes Park |
|
|
|
Rocky Mtn. NP |
|
|
|
Trail Ridge Rd. |
|
|
|
Iceberg Pass (12,148 ft.) |
|
|
|
Milner Pass (10,758
ft.) |
|
|
198 |
Right onto US-40 (Granby area) |
|
|
|
Muddy Pass (8772 ft) |
|
|
|
Rabbit Ears Pass
(9426 ft) |
|
5:00 pm |
282 |
Steamboat Springs, Co |
|
|
|
END OF DAY 2 |
Continental Divide and Conquer Home
