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The Pikes Peak Highway is a 19-mile (31 km)
toll road that runs from Cascade, Colorado to the summit house of
Pikes Peak in El Paso County, Colorado. It is open year-round,
"weather permitting", i.e. when snow removal is not excessively
difficult.
The Pikes Peak Highway was constructed in 1915 and financed by Spencer Penrose at a cost of $500,000.[1] However, an earlier road up the mountain, the Pike's Peak Carriage Road, dates back to 1889. The road is maintained by the city of Colorado Springs. The bottom third of this road is paved while the upper portion is gravel. The gravel portion is home to an annual automobile and motorcycle race called the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. Litigation was pursued by the Sierra Club, in 1998-1999, on grounds of environmental damage from the gravel portion of the road.[2] Pursuant to the settlement agreed by the Sierra Club and the City of Colorado Springs, the unpaved portion of the Pikes Peak Highway is slated to become a hard-surface road, despite concerns that such a project would radically change the nature of the annual automobile and motorcycle race. Stated completion date for this paving project is 2010. (WikiPedia) |
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Pike Peak Highway, one of the highway at the
highest elevation in the US - over 14,000 feet
At 9,230 feet the Crystal Reservoir is still frozen.
At 11,440 feet elevation
Switchbacks to the peak
Other Fourteeners (with the snow cap) of the Rockies in the distance.
Devil's Playground at 12,780 feet.
The storm is coming soon. Ranger closes the road near 13,000 feet elevation.
View from below near 9,000 feet elevation. You can see the Switchbacks and the clouds over the peak. Nhiều hình ảnh khác của The Pikes Peak Highway ở địa chỉ dưới đây. Mời xem :
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