Nice TR. Just in case you are interested or curious.
The counties and state just don’t have enough money to pave or grade every road in the state. Prioirty goes to roads that lead to populated areas and houses. Out west, the road to Grays and Torreys is nothing unusual.
I could use the county where I live as a good example. Moffat County is roughly twice the size of the state of Deleware. Minus a few “city” streets, there are only five paved roads in the entire county (and two of those are fairly short dead-end roads). Many more are gravel and graded fairly often. All the rest are only sporaticially graded or not at all.
If you don’t have a 4wd, there are still many ways around this. It is fairly common (in Utah especially) for people in cars to bring a bike and when the road gets to rough, you hop on that and lock it in the woods. In the example of Grays and Torreys, it’s not that far to walk or use an alternate trailhead.
Just for info only, and I thought you might enjoy hearing it from a different perspective. For some, the lack of “civilization” and “improvements” in some of the rural areas is an attraction.
Good point Scott, but what I meant by this heading is that the road to Grays and Torreys was far more rough than ANY other roads I encountered during my time living in Colorado. I mean, the road to Elbert and Massive, the road to the Indian Peaks, the roads in Rocky Mountain National Park, and roads to several other peaks I climbed never matched the roughness of this road. In that sense, I am pointing out how the way to Stevens Gulch, specifically, was difficult for my car at the time. I do know that many of the roads to Colorado 14ers have similar difficulties in tread. Thanks for the comment.
Scott - Apr 12, 2007 12:18 pm - Hasn't voted
Another perspective.Nice TR. Just in case you are interested or curious.
The counties and state just don’t have enough money to pave or grade every road in the state. Prioirty goes to roads that lead to populated areas and houses. Out west, the road to Grays and Torreys is nothing unusual.
I could use the county where I live as a good example. Moffat County is roughly twice the size of the state of Deleware. Minus a few “city” streets, there are only five paved roads in the entire county (and two of those are fairly short dead-end roads). Many more are gravel and graded fairly often. All the rest are only sporaticially graded or not at all.
If you don’t have a 4wd, there are still many ways around this. It is fairly common (in Utah especially) for people in cars to bring a bike and when the road gets to rough, you hop on that and lock it in the woods. In the example of Grays and Torreys, it’s not that far to walk or use an alternate trailhead.
Just for info only, and I thought you might enjoy hearing it from a different perspective. For some, the lack of “civilization” and “improvements” in some of the rural areas is an attraction.
hgrapid - Apr 12, 2007 12:44 pm - Hasn't voted
Good point, however...Good point Scott, but what I meant by this heading is that the road to Grays and Torreys was far more rough than ANY other roads I encountered during my time living in Colorado. I mean, the road to Elbert and Massive, the road to the Indian Peaks, the roads in Rocky Mountain National Park, and roads to several other peaks I climbed never matched the roughness of this road. In that sense, I am pointing out how the way to Stevens Gulch, specifically, was difficult for my car at the time. I do know that many of the roads to Colorado 14ers have similar difficulties in tread. Thanks for the comment.