Front Range
I've posted a picture taken from this location along Interstate 70 in Colorado before, but it's one of my favorite points along the Interstate Highway System, so here it is again. This is at the crest of the first big hill along the Front Range as you're heading west out of Golden, when you've just finished a climb of 2,100 feet in the space of eight miles to get your first real view of the Rocky Mountains. You're not done climbing yet, though. This is only a break at 7,700 feet. You've still got another 4,000 feet to climb before you reach your highest point ... and that's only if you stay on the interstate. Get off at one of a couple exits, and you can go another thousand or so feet past that.
Front Range
I've posted a picture taken from this location along Interstate 70 in Colorado before, but it's one of my favorite points along the Interstate Highway System, so here it is again. This is at the crest of the first big hill along the Front Range as you're heading west out of Golden, when you've just finished a climb of 2,100 feet in the space of eight miles to get your first real view of the Rocky Mountains. You're not done climbing yet, though. This is only a break at 7,700 feet. You've still got another 4,000 feet to climb before you reach your highest point ... and that's only if you stay on the interstate. Get off at one of a couple exits, and you can go another thousand or so feet past that.