Travel the highest continuous paved road in North America, discovering its engineering marvels, historical significance, and the diverse landscapes it traverses.
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Trail Ridge Road Touches the Sky
This series, Road to the Sky, explores Trail Ridge Road — forty-eight miles of asphalt cutting through Rocky Mountain National Park between Estes Park and Grand Lake.
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Ancient Footsteps Above the Treeline
Long before engineers surveyed a single mile, the Arapaho people walked this route.
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Life at the Edge of Survival
Winter above eleven thousand five hundred feet lasts roughly ten months of the year.
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Where Water Chooses Its Ocean
At Milner Pass, elevation ten thousand seven hundred fifty-eight feet, a single raindrop landing on the right spot could split into two rivulets heading for different…
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Building a Road Through Thin Air
Workers blasted through solid granite at elevations where oxygen levels drop by a third, yet Trail Ridge Road never exceeds a seven percent grade — a remarkable…
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Overlooks That Read Like Geology Textbooks
Many Parks Curve, at about 9,620 feet, earned its name because it reveals several broad mountain valleys — or parks — spread below in a single sweeping view.
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