I had a professor in undergrad who tried to talk me into going to grad school in Colorado where he went. He would always the air is better out there. From the looks of it he was right.
It is virtually never this empty, kinda amazed. Normally it's b@lls to the walls, bumper to bumper, people doing 4 & 5-lane changes, at 90mph 🤣 then slows to 30mph in 3 seconds, and traffic now extends far out into the burbs & beyond the city. Had 2 businessmen (I've driven uɓer 5 years now), "we've been coming to Denver since 2001, these days it looks like LA (not really *that* bad), where are all these ppl going??" it used to be a small town, but... now a drive across the city can take 2 & a half hours. This is also definitely a more fun direction to do as well, NB I25 into downtown is like 20 miles of stop n go half the time
They also start seemingly a few miles from the northern edge of the city, tho it practically grows by the month, but you see their only in Denver proper from 7:30 (52nd Ave I think, the city goes to about 150th now) until 18:40, where Hampden is the southern bound (except where Denver annexed stuff). That's why the city proper is 700k but the metro is like 3.3M. The growth in the south & east has nearly been on par with a mile every 5 years, sometimes faster, and more than half of those towers when you "leave" Denver at like 19min were not there before like '09, '08. Another thing, idk if you can see it here, Arapahoe Road (going south, about 22mins) was a dirt road in the early 80s. It's now a 6-8 lane road at 55mph. Lincoln was a dirt road until the mid 90s, also a 6-8 lane, and Ridgegate connects with another town like 15 miles away & only opened like 3 years ago, people are still learning of it. They also expanded the light rail from Lincoln, where it ended when we were kids (2011) to Ridgegate, like 3 miles, for $400M. They're building like 6 15-story buildings there, looks real weird they're just in the middle of a field, and the 2nd stop from the end at Ridgegate is "Lone Tree City Center". 2 times I've been, it was a little dirt lot in hundreds of acres of praries, literally just a few construction company trucks and the orange plastic fencing. Like no roads connect to it by like a mile 😂💀 just a lotta growth... also a studio here in 2016 was like 600 a month, now they're like 1,600 starting, most 2bd where you won't experience crime are 2k+ 🥲
Heading for the High Country. There's that 100 miles or so of I-76 out there; doesn't connect directly to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, but you can get there in a few days on I-80 and I-71 to just outside Akron. It had originally been designated I-80S. And US 36 west between Denver and Boulder was once a turnpike; all 17 miles of it.
Ah... I finally can take a snooze while someone else drives.😂 I live/work in Denver. When I want to visit bros in NM I usually take this route. Very scenic drive.
Looks like a nice ride along interstate 25 from Denver to Colorado Springs Didn't know there's a El Paso County like the name of the city not to far from the Texas New Mexico state line
