Steep Grades Colorado Springs to Moab
Hey all, Visiting a friend in Colorado Springs then headed to Moab area. Looking for route suggestions that avoid switchbacks, steep grades, and bad roads. We leave in 3 weeks. It's not that my ...
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ppine wrote:
If you are going through the mountains, you need to learn how to drive in the mountains.
A must for sure. We've been traveling the US for 8 years now, Oregon to Maine, Cali to Florida and much of the middle. I've learned lots in that time, but always open to suggestions. What I've learned the most is to mitigate the towing-height fear and hit those scenic spots with the truck only. Towing the 5W adds a whole lot to it. It's not the grades, really, by the way. It's the heights with narrow roads and LONG dropoffs, lack of guard rails, and pulling a 5W especially. Long, steep, grades and few pullouts are also annoying but not fearful.
