The Colorado Pass Book: A Guide to Colorado's Backroad Mountain Passes - Softcover

Koch, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871088797 ISBN 13: 9780871088796

Publisher: Pruett Pub Co, 2000

Synopsis

This popular guide to Colorado's spectacular mountain-pass roads is now available in a revised edition with interesting historical details, photos, and a helpful expanded section on four wheel traveling with tips on driving and equipment. Includes orientation information, directions, terrain descriptions, and forest service contacts.

About this title

About the Author

Don Koch is an avid backcountry traveler and a retired land use and environmental planning consultant for state agencies and local governments throughout Colorado. He lives in Denver.

From the Back Cover

This comprehensive guide to Colorado's spectacular mountain pass roads is chock-full of intriguing historical narratives, photographs of breathtaking vistas, and tips for four-wheel driving, including a section on navigating with a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. Explore beautiful Colorado with this new edition's current orientation, directions, terrain descriptions, and Forest Service contacts.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Some routes, such as Berthoud Pass, Loveland Pass, Fremont Pass, and Red Mountain Pass [have] lived on to become household words among Colorado travelers . . . but dozens of other high pass roads, though still traversable, have slipped into obscurity. Where Native Americans, traders, wagon masters, miners, missionaries, and desperados once roamed in an age of unbridled ambition, only a few summertime visitors now travel. . . . It is my aspiration that this third edition will continue to entertain readers and inspire travelers to set out on the explorations that led so many before them along Colorado's enduring network of highway pass roads.-From the Introduction

Edition details

• Publisher: Pruett Pub Co
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871088797
• ISBN 13: 9780871088796
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 225