Pa to Denver 454
I haven't been out west and was looking at going either route 70 or 80 and was wondering if there are any hard hills for an RV on these roads? Looking at going out in June. If there are mountains, is ...
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carp65 wrote:
The elevation to Denver is a slow climb beginning in western Kansas. No
real mountains until after Denver on I-70. Eisenhower Tunnel is 11+ thousand
feet. We have done it many times in our 2005 GeorgieBoy with a Ford V-10
I've done the climb from Denver to Copper Mountain (12,000 feet) lots of times in an SUV, but the thought of doing it in my RV scares me to death. It's hard work for my rental Suburbans (can barely do the speed limit up, and brakes get hot going down). I've seen RVs out there and I have a lot of respect for people that venture out there with them. Big rigs, too. Long, slow climbs and steep, long descents. You can see the runaway truck ramps get lots of use by the tire tracks in them.
It would be really cool to get out there in my old Allegro just to say I did it, but I don't see it happening.
