Denver's amazing Gothic Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, site of St. Pope John Paul II's visit in 1993, along the US 40 in downtown Denver.
From the Cathedral website: (
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"Location: Colfax and Logan Streets
Mailing address: 1535 Logan St., Denver, CO 80203-1913
Phone: (303) 831-7010
The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception serves as the mother church for the growing faith community of almost 500,000 Catholics, in 144 parishes and missions spread throughout northern Colorado.
The Cathedral houses the kathedra, or chair, from where the Archbishop carries out his service to the Church of Denver as Teacher and Shepherd. Locally, the Cathedral Parish is a spiritual haven for over 700 households.
Our website is an exercise of the Church’s commitment to “Go out and teach all nations”… the Good News of Jesus Christ. We hope and pray God’s blessings for you and yours! Come visit us sometime… and again, welcome!"
The Lincoln Highway makes a deep loop off the US 30 to take in the major city of Denver CO. The routes of the early US highways frequently made such loops because they depended on communities that were willing to subsidize their constriction in the days before Federal finding. If a city was willing to throw money at a highway, the highway would come down and pass through it.
The primary route of the Lincoln Highway to Denver (and a secondary loop to Greely CO) can be explored here: (
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At Big Springs Nebraska the Lincoln Highway created a loop route to Denver. The direct Lincoln Hwy route followed the US 30 west to Cheyenne, while the loop route dipped southeast down the US 138/I-76 to Merino CO, where the route zig-zagged along the old US 6/I-76 to Brush CO, before turning due west along US 34/I-76 Business Route to Fort Morgan CO. At Fort Morgan, the LH loop route divided again into a primary loop route that zig-zagged (in the manner of early American highways) southwest to Denver on state highways, and secondary loop route to Denver via Greely CO. This secondary loop route tracked along the US 34 to Greely, where it tuned south on the US 85 to Denver. The primary route to Denver from Fort Morgan followed SH 6 to Wiggins, then proceeded south to Bennet CO on US 6 to US 36. The US 36 runs with the US 40 and US 287 west of Denver.
In Denver the US 87 runs as College Blvd. At the College Blvd. intersection with Colfax Ave., US 87 joins US 36/40/287 to run west through downtown.
On the western edge of Denver, the Lincoln Highway turned right on Federal Blvd/US 287, then followed the US 287 to Fort Collins CO, where it turned east to join the old US 87 to Cheyenne. US 36 and US 40 peeled off the Lincoln Highway west of downtown Denver and continued west to Rocky Mountain National Park (US 36) and Winter Park CO (US 40).