Mt. Evans Road! (Colorado's Highest Peak) 

I didnt know that. Is Mount Elbert drivable?

I drove to the top over 40 years ago when I was young and had guts, I would not drive up now that I am older. I would ride a motorcycle maybe but that's it. When you get to the top back in the day they had a little tourist building if I remember correctly. Someone said it burned down several years ago. Lastly you could walk on top of a small hump once you are on the top and I happened to look over a ledge it looked like a 500 to 1000 foot drop. I got the hell out of that section !

Yes, their lung capacity is impressive. But "impressive" is not the word that comes to mind when you get stuck behind a bicyclist climbing Mount Evans. Lots more colorful and less friendly terms get hurled out car windows!

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We eat spicy food all the time. Ever heard of Texas chili?

That road is nothing,,,Try Red Mountain Pass

@@curtriedel5036 I drove US 6 in Utah, in a tractor trailer, and it was scary. It looked like it was about 1,000 feet to the bottom, on a steep slope. Any vehicle that went over, would probably accelerate to 100+ MPH. And it would smash up like a tin can.☠

I must have been thinking of the gradient. Because I watched a video, and I didn’t see a drop off anywhere. But the gradient just keeps going. Oops.

@@drm5134 Rabbit Ears pass on US 40 going into Steamboat Springs has the same, 1,000 drop off with a lake at the bottom, this was back in the early 90's, I believe that they redid the road. But anyway, the Pucker Factor was impressive.

I meant it's the highest paved road. Sorry!

Ah... kk :) Either way it sure is pretty :)

Mt. Evans is the highest peak in Colorado.

@@copperhead9437 Mount Elbert is the highest.

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There's a reason for the quick retreat: even on a hot day, it's cold and windy up there! Few people hang around at the top!

I sure as hell hope not

@Beach Belly wow

This road ends at a lookout, so I don't think trucks are needed up there.

Iv seen dump trucks on pike peke they were doing some road work I was shaking going up and down pikes peke in my car sure wouldn't want to drive a dump truck down it

they got the asphalt up there by truck

When I took my Midwestern, flatlands wife up in the Colorado rockies several years ago, her eyes damn near popped out of her head. We stopped at a medical clinic and the doctor said get the hell out of the mountains.

The road is wide enough for 2 1/2 cars. How wide is your motorcycle?

There's not much risk of drop-offs on Mount Evans or on Beartooth Pass. They are both nice roads, with smooth pavement on well-built roadbeds. Beartooth pass is much more enjoyable on a motorcycle, and the difference is entirely the result of traffic. Mount Evans is just outside Metro Denver, so traffic is thick and slow, and any kind of wildlife near the road might lead to a traffic jam. Beartooth Pass is far from any city, so traffic keeps moving. Beartooth has far more shoulders and pull-outs where people can stop to watch wildlife without blocking the road. When you get your motorcycle down off Mount Evans, you'll be glad to be off the mountain. When you get over Beartooth Pass on a motorcycle, you'll be tempted to turn around and ride it again right away! If you get down off Mount Evans and you'd like to ride an enjoyable mountain road, hang a right at the bottom and ride over Squaw Pass toward Evergreen. You'll enjoy the ride much more than you enjoyed riding up Mount Evans! All the bicycles you saw on Mont Evans will be using Squaw Pass to get back down to the city, but they won't be such a problem as they were on Mount Evans: The shoulders on Squaw Pass are narrow, but at least there ARE shoulders. On Mount Evans (as you can see in the video) there's no place for the bicycles to move over, so traffic backs up behind them. If you want to enjoy the trip up Mount Evans, do it on foot: From Georgetown, ride up toward Guanella Pass. Stop at the trailhead and hike up Mount Bierstadt, which is one of the easiest 14,000 foot peaks in Colorado. When you reach the top, shinny across the "Sawtooth" ridge that stretches over to the summit of Mount Evans. Congrats! You reached the top of Mount Evans without any traffic! Now scoot back over the sawtooth ridge and hike back down the Bierstadt trail to your bike. 🙂

Yes. Any car that can make it from California to Colorado can get up Mount Evans and back. Be sure your brakes are in good shape: you'll ride your brakes coming down Mount Evans, and your brakes will get hot. The Forest Service stops traffic periodically to check brake temperatures. If your brakes are excessively hot, they will ask you to stop and let them cool before you continue driving down.

Is this scaryer then pikes peke