Originally Posted by
gt40
If you guys take the Denver route, you'll be traveling I-70 westward out of Denver. this is a gorgeous drive and is a really remarkable bit of freeway construction. Huge sections of it are suspended over the valley it runs in to minimize the impact to the enviornment. The construction company was fined for every tree it damaged or killed (something like $10k per tree.) You'd be driving past Lake Dillon, Vail, through Glenwood Canyon, and the Eisenhauer tunnel (built to preserve a popular rock climbing area.) One of my favorite drives (short of driving North from Durango, through Silverton and Ouray to Montrose.)
The downside of it is that you'll get up to a hair over 11,000 feet at the Eisenhauer Tunnel, though I can't remember any steep grades on the drive. It's a modern, multi-lane freeway with plenty of traffic and highway patrols. There are worse places to break down.
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