Where Does Interstate 40 Cross the Continental Divide

US Route 40 is a prominent route in Colorado, which reaches Kansas to the East and Utah to the West. The road travels through cities like Steamboat Springs and Denver, but crosses the Continental Divide at Berthoud Pass between Empire and Winter Park. It summits at 11,307 feet in elevation.

Where does the Continental Divide Trail cross I 40?

(2.216 m) and is crossed by the Interstate 40, old Route 66 and the BNSF Railway (which in the past had been the AT & SF Railway). It is a pass in the Rocky Mountains and marks the continental divide in this point of western-central New Mexico.

Where do you cross the Continental Divide?

This divide runs from Cape Prince of Wales in western Alaska, through the Rocky Mountains of western Canada and the continental United States, then through the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Mexico, through Central America and along the Andes Mountains of South America.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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