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Summit County Sights

The great east-west Colorado corridor I-70 cleaves through the heart of Summit County, punching west from Denver past Idaho Springs and Georgetown. The traffic here can be heavy and fast; everyone is in a hurry to make it through the Eisenhower Tunnel, the traditional gateway to Summit County. Those with an extra half hour and a yearning for hairpin turns, shaggy mountain goats, and hundred-mile views opt for Highway 6 over Loveland Pass and the Continental Divide. As it drops into the Summit County Basin on the west side of the divide, Highway 6 passes Arapahoe Basin and Keystone Ski Resort before merging with I-70. Both roads skirt Dillon Reservoir with its shoreline communities of Dillon and Frisco. The highway quickly disappears back into a narrow mountain valley and climbs to Copper Mountain and then up and over Vail Pass. Highway 9 quarters Summit County, running north along the lazy Blue River to Kremmling and south past Breckenridge to its headwaters near Hoosier Pass. More »