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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 11,158 ...
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.
Loveland Pass, 1941. It is located on the Continental Divide in the Front Range, west of Denver on U.S. Highway 6 (US 6). The twisty road is considered to be especially treacherous during the winter months. A steep, steady 6.7% grade, along with numerous hairpin turns on either side, make it difficult to snowplow the road regularly.
The Central City Parkway is a four-lane, 8.4 miles (13.5 km) highway in Clear Creek and Gilpin counties in Colorado, United States, that connects Interstate 70 / U.S. Route 6 / U.S. Route 40 (I-70/US 6/US 40), immediately south of Central City (and about 3 miles [4.8 km] east of Idaho Springs) with Nevadaville Road and Nevada Street in the ...
Scenic. ← SH 72. → SH 75. State Highway 74 ( SH 74) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Colorado. Running 18 miles (29 km) from Interstate 70 (I-70) in El Rancho to SH 8 in Morrison, the highway roughly follows a hook-shaped path running northwest–southeast. The section of the route north of the town of Evergreen is known as Evergreen ...
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 ...
1951. Maintained by. CDOT. Interstate 70 westbound off ramp to Interstate 25. The Mousetrap is an informal name for the interchange of Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 in the northern part of Denver, Colorado, United States. The interchange pre-dates the Interstate Highway System, originally built as an intersection between two local roads in 1951.