 |
| Eagle/Thomasville Road |
 |
| Upper alpine lake |
Total mileage: Eagle/Thomasville Road - 44 miles one-way
Cottonwood Pass - 30 miles one-way
Difficulty Rating: Easy
Starting point: Thomasville
Finishing point: El Jebel
Total time: Approx. 5 hours
Access: Eagle/Thomasville Road
Follow the Fryingpan River Road out of Basalt and towards Reudi Reservoir for 20 miles.
In the late 1800's & early 1900's, Thomasville was a station on the CO Midland Railroad and a settlement around the St. Louis & CO Smelter. The Bessie mine just outside of town provided ore to the smelt. Many of the original buildings of this mountain ghost town remain.
The road is a beautiful and easy drive through aspen forests and some meadows with wildflowers.
Access: Cottonwood Pass
Southwest out of Gypsum
An easy mountain backroad that passes through ranch land, gentle rolling hills and a broad valley before climbing through the corner of the White River National Forest to the Pass. From the Pass, the road descends through similiar country before exiting on CO 82 in El Jebel.
No comments:
Post a Comment