Loveland Pass is a high mountain pass in north-central Colorado, at an elevation of 11,990 feet above sea level in the Rocky Mountains of the Western United States.
Loveland Pass in late March 2005
US 6 through Loveland Pass is the primary route for trucks that are prohibited from passing through the Eisenhower Tunnel.
In clear and calm weather in Colorado at 1:14 p.m. MDT on Friday, October 2, 1970, a chartered Martin 4-0-4 airliner crashed into a mountain eight miles west of Silver Plume. Operated by Golden Eagle
Loveland Pass
…the Loveland Ski Area, near the summit of Loveland Pass. Loveland Pass has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc). On a clear Friday in early October 1970, a plane crash occurred about two miles (3 km) north of the summit, and only nine of the forty on board survived. The plane carried members of the Wichita State…
A Martin 4-0-4, circa 1981, in Florida Airlines livery.
Roadside memorial in Colorado on Interstate 70, milepost 217
A forested hiking path winds through trees with fallen logs crossing the trail, leading through a dense woodland.
Pieces of metal wreckage lie scattered on a forested slope at the Wichita State University football team plane crash site.