HIGHEST -- Paved road in North America
Posted by: Outspoken1
N 39° 39.392 W 105° 35.749
13S E 448887 N 4389806
Mount Evans Scenic Byway is the highest paved road in North America and is only open during the summer months.
Waymark Code: WMFBX9
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2012
Views: 1
Mount Evans Scenic Byway is the highest paved road in North America (
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visit link) . There is no fee to drive the road, but if you park in an official lot, then you must pay the $10 entrance fee. The drive can be a bit of a 'white-knuckle' drive. There are several places to pull off to photograph as well as several trail heads for hiking. There is an alpine garden maintained by the Denver Botanical Gardens; ruins of the Crest House and the University of Denver Meyer-Womble Observatory. Prepare for cool weather and sudden storms. This road is also a very popular bicycle ride, so do please be careful passing cyclists. The wind can make a bicyclist very unstable.
There are many Waymarks along this route. The top of the road is very close to the summit of the mountain - so one can easily 'summit a Fourteener!' The summit benchmark is at N 39° 35.317, W 105° 38.567.
A time lapse of the drive may be found at (
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NOTE: Trail Ridge Road, which goes through Rocky Mountain National Park, is the highest continuous paved road in the USA (
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