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Need-To-Know Info About Pass Closures

I got an email from Steve in New Zealand asking about early and late season road closures. He asked:

I found your website and it is REALLY great. Myself and 3 or 4 friends are coming over from New Zealand in 2009 for a 12 day bike ride. One thing which would really help overseas people is to know which roads are NOT passable during the “early” months (ie Apr/May/Jun). We are planning on being there the first 2 weeks of June, so it would be very handy to know which roads are NOT passable, given “normal” weather conditions. Obviously it is not possible to predict the exact weather in advance but knowing that certain roads are likely impassable means that detours can be pre-planned (where practical of course).

I did some checking and found six roads that the Colorado Department of Transportation says close for the winter:

    US 34 over Trail Ridge Road

    CO 82 over Independence Pass

    CO 5 to the top of Mount Evans

    COS 1 to the top of Pike’s Peak

    GCR 12 over Kebler Pass

    FR 209, 306 over Cottonwood Pass

For more info on this subject, check the What You Need page.

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