CO Route 139 north of Grand Junction

[kknowlton]

Considering this route on a western Colorado trip. Reading about it in Mt Directory West makes it sound a bit iffy for our rig (see sig). We would drive it northbound. Anyone have experience with this route & could help with our decision? TIA.

[4runnerguy]

If you do this drive, you might want to have this brochure handy:

Rock Art Driving Tour

[2gypsies1]

Here's a YouTube of the drive. We've done it with our 40' MH from north to south. No shoulders but it's a short, scenic drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysXQghMC5g0

[kknowlton]

Thanks, CloudDriver! Looks like quite an adventure. The pics are really appreciated - gives a good feel for the ride.

[CloudDriver]

We used route 139 north from Grand Junction on our way to Vernal back in 2012. We have a 24 ft MH with no toad. I do recall one sharp curve where I was glad that there was no one coming in the opposite direction. We did have several 18 wheel trucks pass us along the way. I don't recall any issues going back down toward Dinosaur.

A couple of pictures looking back down the road from Grand Junction:

Yes, that's a truck coming up the grade.


Nearly to the top.