Victoria overlooking Ute Pass on the Pikes Peak Highway. Ute Pass is located in central Colorado along US Highway 24 between Manitou Springs on the East and Florissant on the West. Ute Pass skirts the North side of Pikes Peak and climbs 3,000 Ft. to the summit at Divide which is 9,165 Ft. above sea level.

The Pass began as a bison trail that connected the prairie with the mountain meadows of what we now call South Park. For years the Ute Indians followed the herds up and down the Pass. Later the trail became a wagon road and the Colorado Midland Railway put in tracks to service the mining operations in mountains to the west. The railroad tracks are gone (as of the 1950's) and the wagon road is now a 4-lane highway


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