The Mount Evans Scenic Byway from Echo Lake ... is the highest paved road in North America. The Colorado Department of Transportation normally aims to have it open by Memorial Day.

Snow has been falling in the high country, and seasonal road closures are around the corner. The Mount Evans Highway, Colorado 5, closes for the season on Monday, according to the Colorado Department ...

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Colorado — Mount Evans Highway (Colorado Highway 5) is now open to the public for the 2022 season. Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) crews worked throughout the month of May and into ...

The road that takes visitors up one of Colorado's most popular 14ers ... improvements to a section of Mount Blue Sky (formerly Mount Evans) Scenic Byway will impact visitors in 2024 and 2025.

Of Colorado's many sites, few are as majestic and as accessible as Mount Blue Sky, formerly Mount Evans, one of the highest ... project to repair 0.75 miles of road by a parking lot 13,000 feet ...

Known locally as “fourteeners,” 54 peaks in Colorado are more than 14,000 feet high, and 14,264-foot Mount Evans is one of two that can be driven all the way to the top. The road up its ...

John Evans served as Colorado territorial governor from 1862 ... Those questions about the name of the mountain, with its twisty paved roads, mountain goats, visitors from as close as Denver ...

Mount Evans, the Colorado fourteener named after the state’s disgraced territorial governor, now has a new name: Mount Blue Sky. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted 15-1 on Friday afternoon ...

The mountain had been named for Colorado’s second territorial governor, John Evans, who was determined ... how long it will take for maps and area road signs to reflect the new name.