EASTBOUND Highway 24 ONLY (headed DOWN the pass)
Kid friendly, and easy parking off the highway, very close to the cache location.
Official geocaching.com opaque plastic size regular lock and lock that LOVES trackables (like we do). Get those trackables MOVING, as travel bugs want to TRAVEL not sit in the hotel for a long time.
CONGRATULATIONS to hartsdale for being FTF just before midnight !!!
From the Ute Pass Historical Society webpage at http://www.utepasshistoricalsociety.org/ute-pass-history/
Ute Pass is located in central Colorado along U.S. Highway 24 west of Colorado Springs. The pass includes the towns of Cascade, Chipita Park, Green Mountain Falls, Crystola, Woodland Park, and Divide. It skirts the north side of Pikes Peak through the Fountain Creek canyon west of Manitou Springs, and climbs 3,000 feet to its summit in Divide at 9,165 feet. It is one of only a handful of access points into the Rocky Mountains along Colorado’s front range.
Ute Pass was first used as a trail between the prairies and the mountains by the Ute people, who depended on the resources of both areas to support their nomadic lifestyle. In the 1860s, the Ute trail became a wagon road connecting Colorado City to the mining camp of Leadville. Travelers through the pass brought prosperity to the region. Starting in 1888, the Colorado Midland Railway ran tracks through Ute Pass in to the mines at Leadville, Aspen, and later Cripple Creek. With the coming of the railroad, tourism flourished. Hotels, cabins, and small lakes were built to serve the crowds of summer guests and expanded the local economy that had previously relied on ranching and lumber mills. Mining declined over the years and the railroad stopped running, but tourism continued to flourish in the mountain towns. Today, the railroad tracks are gone, and the old wagon road is a four-lane U.S. highway.
Ute Pass Travel Bug Hotel
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