Hoosier Pass
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Hoosier Pass is a high mountain pass in central Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. The name derives from the Hoosier Gulch, which was worked by men from Indiana, nicknamed
View south from Hoosier Pass, towards Alma
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service sign at the Hoosier Pass on the Continental Divide, August 10, 2024
Memorial at the Hoosier Pass on the Continental Divide
South Park is a grassland flat within the basin formed by the Rocky Mountains' Mosquito and Rampart Mountain Ranges within central Colorado. This high valley ranges in elevation from approximately 9,0
Hoosier Pass
…provides a route between the headwaters of the Blue River (tributary of the Colorado River) to the north and the headwaters of the South Platte River in South Park to the south. It is traversed by State Highway 9 between the towns of Breckenridge (north) and Fairplay (south). The highway over the pass provides an…
View of South Park along U.S. Highway 285 looking eastward toward the Front Range
A meadow near the headwaters of the Middle Fork South Platte River below Montgomery Reservoir in South Park
U.S. Highway 285 in South Park