Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Traversing a Colorado mountain pass during a storm in the dead of winter is a harrowing experience. Drivers with white knuckles and gritted teeth navigate ...

About 90% of the tall spruce in the area have been killed by beetles MONARCH PASS – Sergio Bernal casually flicks his wrist and the towering spruce falls. The Oregon forester presses a button and ...

Monarch Pass straddles the Continental Divide 23 miles west of the town of Salida. It is the only Colorado pass that has a commercial tourist operation other than a gift shop located on its summit.

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) - The Colorado Department of Transportation announced Friday the completed installation of the Colorado's newest remote control avalanche mitigation system, this one on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A blast of wind hit 148 mph on Monarch Pass Thursday, the highest gust recorded in Colorado by the National Weather Service. The gust, out of the west, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado Department of Transportation says an area of low snowpack melted in the recent heat wave, causing an avalanche that ...

If you’re reading this, you’re likely from Colorado – so you know that when it comes to weather, our beautiful state has quite a few tricks up its sleeve. Case in point? These photos of Monarch Pass.

A historic tourist stop in Colorado is about to debut with a new look and feel. Above 11,300 feet along Monarch Pass, the old snack and gift shop beside the scenic tramway has been redubbed Monarch ...

CHAFFEE COUNTY — Two motorcyclists from Indiana died and a woman from western Gunnison County was injured in a crash near the summit of Monarch Pass Tuesday night. Authorities said it happened a ...