colorado

Wasn't that pass the one Lucy and Desi went over in "The Long Trailer?"

 

I know it was in Colorado, because when I watched the movie with my mom way back when I was a teen, she told me she had been over that pass with Grandma & Grandpa, and it was the day North Korea invaded South Korea in June, 1950, as they heard the announcement on the car's radio.

 

I work about 15 minutes from RMNP> Worth the trip into the park and up and across trail ridge. You won't be disappointed!

 

Me too! But sadly my '55 Chevy wagon is sitting over 1000 miles away still apart with the radiator out and new AC not hooked up.
And I'm not even on vacation!

 

Loveland Pass on old Rt 6 is what we used before the Eisenhower was built. Here's a description:

"Loveland Pass is a high mountain pass in the western United States, at an elevation of 11,990 feet above sea level in the Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado. It is located on the Continental Divide in the Front Range west of Denver on U.S. Highway 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."

It was always winter when we went over it.

 

Things like this make me think they should have added ten feet of fill dirt.
I like even numbers.

 

Loveland Pass! That's what it was! The question is, is it still open?

 

Yes. Trucks carrying hazardous materials have to use it instead of the tunnel.

 

tunnel or pass? which one should i take?

 

Tunnel in one direction, pass in the other.

 

why didnt i think of that?

 

If you're sightseeing, why would you go back the same way you came? Too much other stuff to see.

 

Yeah, save your breath...what little you'll have.

 

ok so i found the movie and watched it ,that was a heck of a road .I guess it has guard rails now

 

You don't need no stinkin guard rails.