Mosca Pass

Mosca Pass
Elevation 9,737 ft (2,968 m)[1]
Traversed by trail
Location Alamosa / Huerfano counties, Colorado, U.S.
Range Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Coordinates 37°43′58″N 105°27′16″W / 37.73278°N 105.45444°W / 37.73278; -105.45444Coordinates: 37°43′58″N 105°27′16″W / 37.73278°N 105.45444°W / 37.73278; -105.45444
Topo map USGS Mosca Pass

Mosca Pass, elevation 9,737 ft (2,968 m), is a mountain pass in Alamosa County in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in the United States. Located in the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve about 40 miles west of Walsenburg (Huerfano County), Colorado with a gravel road approaching from the east and traversed by a hiking trail on the west. The terrain is a mix of montane meadows, ponderosa pine woodlands, and Douglas-fir forest.[2]

Previously traversed by the former Colorado State Highway 150.[3]

Mosca Pass was named[4] for Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, whose scouting parties may have reached this area about 1542.[5]

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