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![US Highway 40](../../images/roads/us040-01.jpg)
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Berthoud Pass, Winter Park, Granby, Colorado River, Kremmling, Steamboat Springs, Yampa River, Craig, Dinosaur
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![US 40](../../images/roads/us040-02.jpg)
East end of US 40 through the Rockies, I-70 Empire exit
image from Google: US 40 exit I 70
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![Stanley Mountain](../../images/roads/us040-03.JPG)
Stanley Mountain(12,521') appears immediately
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![Glacial Cirque](../../images/roads/us040-04.JPG)
Glacial cirque, ridgeline continues above 12,000' about 4 miles north from Stanley Mountain
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![Berthoud Pass](../../images/roads/us040-05.JPG)
Berthoud Pass (11,315')
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![Nature abhors a vacuum](../../images/roads/us040-06.JPG)
Nature abhors a vacuum
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![Parry Peak](../../images/roads/us040-07.JPG)
Parry Peak (13,391') of the Front Range
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![Mountain Storms](../../images/roads/us040-08.JPG)
Storms moving over the Front Range
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![Winter Park, CO](../../images/roads/us040-09.JPG)
Winter Park
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![Twin Cones](../../images/roads/us040-10.JPG)
Twin Cones (12,060'), clear to the southwest
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![Indian Peaks](../../images/roads/us040-11.JPG)
Indian Peaks of the Front Range over Fraser River terraces, still cloudy to the northeast
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![Granby, CO](../../images/roads/us040-12.JPG)
Coming into Granby at the Fraser - Colorado River confluence (Rabbit Ears Range in the background)
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![Volcanic Rocks](../../images/roads/us040-13.JPG)
Middle Park Formation Volcanic Rocks
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![Mesa Verde Formation](../../images/roads/us040-14.JPG)
Overlying Mesa Verde Sandstones
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![Dakota Sandstone](../../images/roads/us040-15.JPG)
Overlying Dakota Sandstone
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![pre-Cambrian Granite](../../images/roads/us040-16.JPG)
Pre-Cambrian granite and metamorphic rocks in Byers Canyon (perhaps a Neogene monadnock)
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![Logging](../../images/roads/us040-17.JPG)
Logging but not here, in the monocultured mountains (same size logs)
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![Colorado River](../../images/roads/us040-18.JPG)
US 40 follows the Colorado River between Granby and Kremmling
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![Elliot Ridge](../../images/roads/us040-19.JPG)
Elliot Ridge anchoring the high peaks of the Gore Range south of Kremmling
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![Gore Canyon](../../images/roads/us040-20.JPG)
Gore Canyon cut by the Colorado River through (here into) the Gore Range despite hard pre-Cambrian rocks
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![Whiteley Peak](../../images/roads/us040-21.JPG)
Whiteley Peak (10,115') of the Rabbit Ears Range
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![Rabbit Ears Range](../../images/roads/us040-22.JPG)
Rabbit Ears Range
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![Rabbit Ears Pass](../../images/roads/us040-23.JPG)
Rabbit Ears Pass
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![Rabbit Ears Pass](../../images/roads/us040-24.JPG)
Abundant snow at the pass
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![Top of the Gore Range](../../images/roads/us040-25.JPG)
And along US 40 following the flat-topped Gore Range for about 6 miles
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![Flat Tops](../../images/roads/us040-26.JPG)
Brief glimpses of The Flat Tops
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![Roan Cliffs](../../images/roads/us040-27.JPG)
And Roan Cliffs
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![Flat Tops Basalt](../../images/roads/us040-28.JPG)
Flat Tops basalt sitting on Roan Cliffs
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![Steamboat Springs](../../images/roads/us040-29.JPG)
Whimsical Sculpture downtown Steamboat Springs
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![The Springs](../../images/roads/us040-30.JPG)
The Springs
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![Chapel](../../images/roads/us040-31.JPG)
Chapel outside Steamboat Springs
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![Yampa River](../../images/roads/us040-32.JPG)
Yampa River in flood (US 40 follows the Yampa River from Steamboat Spring to Maybell)
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![Mesa Verde Sandstone](../../images/roads/us040-33.JPG)
Mesa Verde Sandstone off and on all the way to the Utah border and beyond
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![Mesa Verde Coal](../../images/roads/us040-34.JPG)
Local Mesa Verde coal occurring under the sandstones, usually (Hayden Power Plant)
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![Hayden, CO](../../images/roads/us040-35.JPG)
Downtown Hayden
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![Ferdinand Hayden](../../images/roads/us040-36.JPG)
Ferdinand Hayden: abundant features named for him (e.g. Hayden Peak in the Uintas, Hayden Spire in RMNP, Hayden, CO)
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![Swell and Swale](../../images/roads/us040-37.JPG)
Swells and Swales of Mesa Verde sandstones
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![Road Mirages](../../images/roads/us040-38.JPG)
Mirages on roadway caused by heat absorbing fragmented pavement and view angle
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![Yampa River](../../images/roads/us040-39.JPG)
Yampa River
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![CO 318](../../images/roads/us040-40.JPG)
Side trip to Gates of Ladore on CO 318
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![Browns Park](../../images/roads/us040-41.JPG)
Brown Park irrigated by the Green River
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![Juniper](../../images/roads/us040-42.JPG)
Juniper survivor
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![Unita Quartzite](../../images/roads/us040-43.JPG)
Uinta Quartzite
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![Green River](../../images/roads/us040-44.JPG)
Green River exiting Browns Park (flow toward viewer)
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![Green River](../../images/roads/us040-45.JPG)
Green River entering the Uinta Mountains (flow away from viewer)
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![Mountain Trail](../../images/roads/us040-46.JPG)
After scrambling along a well-traveled trail
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![The Gates of Ladore](../../images/roads/us040-47.JPG)
The Gates of Ladore
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![No Gas 57 Miles](../../images/roads/us040-48.JPG)
Back to US 40
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![Roan Cliffs](../../images/roads/us040-49.JPG)
Roan Cliffs
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![Roan Cliffs](../../images/roads/us040-50.JPG)
Roan Cliffs (wide angle)
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![Dinosaur National Mon](../../images/roads/us040-51.JPG)
East end of Dinosaur National Monument dead ahead
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![Side Road North](../../images/roads/us040-52.JPG)
Side road north
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![Uplift Along Anticline](../../images/roads/us040-53.JPG)
Uplift along the south bounding monocline of Dinosaur National Monument
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![End Of The World](../../images/roads/us040-54.jpg)
Right to Left (Younger to Older): Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, Triassic Red Beds fading to Permian shales, and Permian Weber Eolian Sandstone
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![Permian Weber Sandstone](../../images/roads/us040-55.jpg)
Folded Weber Sandstone along the south bounding monocline
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![US 40](../../images/roads/us040-56.JPG)
Back to US 40
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![Mancos Shale Hogbacks](../../images/roads/us040-57.JPG)
Mancos Shale hogbacks along south bounding monocline
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![Mesa Verde Hogbacks](../../images/roads/us040-58.JPG)
Cretaceous Mesa Verde sandstone hogbacks, flat Triassic Red Beds in background raised in the anticline center
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![Derlict Loading Chute](../../images/roads/us040-59.JPG)
Roan Cliffs over dilapidated loading chute
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![Entrada Sandstone](../../images/roads/us040-60.JPG)
Jurassic Entrada Sandstone and Triassic Red Beds forming the cliffs in the background
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![Dinosaur, CO](../../images/roads/us040-61.JPG)
Dinosaur, CO right at the Utah border
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![End Of The World](../../images/roads/us040-62.JPG)
Utah (around the corner)
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![Ocean City, MD](../../images/roads/us040-63.JPG)
Kings Peak, (13,512') highest peak in the Utah
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