Travel tips in Denver and Boulder area
Traveler Beware! Toll roads ahead! Highway robbery! I would like share a travel warning to anyone going to the Denver area. Highway E470 is a toll road. They do not collect the fees at toll gates. ...
Forum Discussion
There have been a lot of threads about this lately and they seem to follow a common trajectory:
OP: "I just got a bill in the mail for the Denver toll and I can't believe how much it was. Everyone else beware."
Everyone else: "We can't believe you didn't know it was a toll road. Seriously."
The responses pile on the OP pretty hard until the OP either flames out or disappears (fight or flight).
It's all very predictable.
As a semi-impartial observer who doesn't live in Denver but flew in and out of DIA a zillion times while our kids were in collage up in Laramie, I can attest that it was confusing at first as an outsider. Yes, the signs show that it's a toll road, but there's no toll plaza and I can't recall seeing a rate chart that would indicate the premium that RVers would pay by the axle. On the other hand, it was only a surprise once. After that, we knew that the mailman was our toll collector and we would pay the fee eventually.
Since this thread is already turning on the OP, I'm going to save us the fight or flight that will come later in Act III and just close the thread.
OP - Sorry about the tolls and the responses here. You're now a member of the Out of State Toll Club and it won't be a surprise next time. Welcome to the club.
OP: "I just got a bill in the mail for the Denver toll and I can't believe how much it was. Everyone else beware."
Everyone else: "We can't believe you didn't know it was a toll road. Seriously."
The responses pile on the OP pretty hard until the OP either flames out or disappears (fight or flight).
It's all very predictable.
As a semi-impartial observer who doesn't live in Denver but flew in and out of DIA a zillion times while our kids were in collage up in Laramie, I can attest that it was confusing at first as an outsider. Yes, the signs show that it's a toll road, but there's no toll plaza and I can't recall seeing a rate chart that would indicate the premium that RVers would pay by the axle. On the other hand, it was only a surprise once. After that, we knew that the mailman was our toll collector and we would pay the fee eventually.
Since this thread is already turning on the OP, I'm going to save us the fight or flight that will come later in Act III and just close the thread.
OP - Sorry about the tolls and the responses here. You're now a member of the Out of State Toll Club and it won't be a surprise next time. Welcome to the club.
