-PAVED- Battle Hill Summit - 9267ft - summit between Minturn and Redcliff on the way to Tennessee Pass Colorado National Monument summit(u) - 6673ft - the best way to get from Grand Junction to Fruita on a road bike, and it is easy to see why. Gypsum Pass - 6610ft(6125ft) - In the confusing topography of the Colorado Plateau, it is easy to miss the fact that you just crossed this pass - or the fact that you have just crossed into a closed drainage from which no precipitation exits. Lizard Head Pass - 10222ft - paved San Juan pass between Telluride and Cortez North La Veta Pass - 9413ft - route between La Veta and Walsenburg used since Spanish colonial times Unaweep Divide - 7048ft - a ride in a canyon, where the stream seems to reverse direction. The valley was carved by an ancestral river.

-  MTB  - Argentine Pass - 13207ft - often said to be Colorado's highest double tracked pass, even if these days only one approach fits that description Chalk Creek Pass -12140ft - single or 0 track trail in the Sawatch Range between Princeton Hot Springs and Monarch Pass Dick Pass- 8153ft - this pass parallels one of the longest hogback ridges in the west, the Grand Hogback, west of Glenwood Springs. FR123 summit(u): Richmond Hill -12290ft - a ridge route in the heart of the Elk Mountains - from here it's downhill to Taylor Pass. Last Dollar Pass-10663ft - a popular bike ride from the Telluride-Ridgeway area, also an alternative to the Dallas Divide Lone Cone Pass- 11029ft - unpaved pass in the western San Juans farr away from the crowds Mosca Pass -9740ft - trail/dirt road through the Sangre de Cristos between Sand Dunes NM and Gardner Monarch Crest Trail s(u) - 12145ft - This single track between Monarch Pass and Marshall Pass has received much publicity Sunnyside Saddle - 12780ft - an opportunity for cyclists to escape from San Juan jeep convoys, at least for a while; one of the most spectacular crossings I know. Waunita Pass - 10303ft - a Hot Springs spa waits on the other side of this fairly well maintained dirt road, suitable for loaded touring with heavy panniers.