Boreas Pass Drive Album
On September 27th, 2009 we drove across Boreas Pass.  The drive
can be made in a 200 mile loop from Denver leaving on 285, drive to
Como, take the Pass Drive to Breckenridge and return on I 70.
Como, CO. is nearly a ghost
town.
The valleys have had a killing
frost.
The railroad buildings on the top
of Boreas Pass.
A railroad watering tower,
Bakers Tank, located at mile
102.16 of the railroad
.
The Aspens were just past their
peak on Sept. 27th.
A high view of a beautiful
mountain valley.
A view to the Northwest from
above the treeline.
A view of Breckenridge from the
southeast.
Boreas Pass Spring Drive on June 25, 2017
A view of the Breckenridge
Reservoir at the start of the
Boreas Pass Spring Drive
.
The Breckenridge end of the
gravel road going over Boreas
Pass.
The west slope side of the
Continental Divide had very little
spring moisture and this was the
only extensive wildflower field
we saw
.  It had Wild Iris's.
The railroad buildings at the top
of Boreas Pass
.           
Map of Boreas Pass.
The Aspens on Boreas Pass.
One of a couple businesses in
the ghost town of Como
.
The view to the west from near the summit of Boreas Pass.
View from downtown
Breckenridge of the ski
runs to the west
.