Trail Ridge Road

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Toll booths at the Beaver Meadows Entrance Station, an eastern entrance to Trail Ridge Road.

View of Trail Ridge Road from a hill above the Ute Trail, nineteen miles from the eastern end of the highway

Trail Ridge Road is the famous name for the stretch of U.S. Highway 34 that traverses Rocky Mountain National Park from Estes Park, Colorado in the east to Grand Lake, Colorado in the west. It crosses the Continental Divide at Milner Pass (elev. 10,758 ft/3,279 m) and reaches a maximum elevation of 12,183 ft (3,713 m), near Fall River Pass (elev. 11,796 ft/3,595 m). It is the highest paved continuous highway in the United States; Colorado State Highway 5, the road to the top of Mount Evans, is the highest paved road in North America but reaches a dead end at the summit.

Trail Ridge Road is closed during the winter, and often remains closed until late spring or early summer depending on the snowpack.

[edit] See also

• Alpine Visitor Center

[edit] External links

• Scenic drives in Rocky Mountain National Park

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