I-70 West - To Downtown Denver at Rush Hour - Colorado - 4K Sunset Highway Drive
Interstate 70 westbound into Denver on a winter evening around rush hour.
Filmed: January 2023
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From Wikipedia:
Interstate 70 (I-70) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from Cove Fort, Utah, to Baltimore, Maryland. In Colorado, the highway traverses an east-west route across the center of the state. In western Colorado, the highway connects the metropolitan areas of Grand Junction and Denver via a route through the Rocky Mountains. In eastern Colorado, the highway crosses the Great Plains, connecting Denver with metropolitan areas in Kansas and Missouri. Bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles, normally prohibited on Interstate Highways, are allowed on those stretches of I-70 in the Rockies where no other through route exists.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) lists the construction of I-70 among the engineering marvels undertaken in the Interstate Highway System and cites four major accomplishments: the section through the Dakota Hogback, Eisenhower Tunnel, Vail Pass, and Glenwood Canyon. The Eisenhower Tunnel, with a maximum elevation of 11,158 feet (3,401 m) and length of 1.7 miles (2.7 km), is the longest mountain tunnel and highest point along the Interstate Highway System. The portion through Glenwood Canyon was completed on October 14, 1992. This was one of the final pieces of the Interstate Highway System to open to traffic and is one of the most expensive rural highways per mile built in the country. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) earned the 1993 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for the completion of I-70 through the canyon.
When the Interstate Highway System was in the planning stages, the western terminus of I-70 was proposed to be at Denver. The portion west of Denver was included in the plans after lobbying by Governor Edwin C. Johnson, for whom one of the tunnels along I-70 is named. East of Idaho Springs, I-70 was built along the corridor of U.S. Highway 40 (US 40), one of the original transcontinental U.S. Highways. West of Idaho Springs, I-70 was built along the route of US 6, which was extended into Colorado during the 1930s.
Time Stamps:
Adams County: 0:00
Araphahoe County: 0:55
Aurora: 5:32
Denver: 10:32
Пікірлер: 38
I love the look and feel of Colorado. I Feel something special when I see this video when I add some of my favorite music.
I first traveled this highway in August 1972. My family was moving from downstate New York to Arizona. We had been down I-44 from St. Louis to Oklahoma City before and decided to take a different route this time. I-70 was complete from Kansas through Loveland Pass (Eisenhower Tunnel). After hundreds of miles of flat prairie land, we were approaching Denver. It was kind of a cloudy day. As we approached Denver we saw this dark gray, almost black band along the horizon behind it. We thought we were in for a heck of a prairie storm! As we got closer, the dark band became sharper and more pronounced. We thought we were in for a tornado. Then, the details became clearer, and we realized to our astonishment, what we saw were the Rocky Mountains! We were used to the smaller, rounder, Appalachian Mountains. Never having been this far north on our prior trips west through to southern New Mexico, we were wowed! The Continental Divide in New Mexico, just west of Carlsbad is not as mountainous as it is in Colorado.
This is so cool. I feel like I am in heaven watching this video with the sunset, clouds taking a ride east of Denver during rush hour. It is so cool with some background music of the song of my choice. Thank you for this so much Mileage Mikes Travels. I love the look and feel of Denver and her outer suburbs surrounding areas. I wish I lived there on the front range. There is so much Interdimensional that I sense and feel.
Beautiful ride, the sound of the overpass at 6:20 also seems very interesting, similar to FL pavement and just lower
Very well done! I had never seen (up until now) how I-70 intersected/interchanged with I-25, and this may be the only way I actually get to see that (as well as the streets and highways of the Mile High City proper).
Wow, I-70 done really changed! If it was still at its old version, traffic would be seriously more worse, I'll tell you that.
Denver Metro is just so beautiful🧡
Excellent video Mileage Mike. The express lane is a good timesaver except for that maneuver one has to make if a person wishes to access I-25 from the express lane at the very end. I know it is a cost benefit thing but still, I hope it won't be the scene of crashes.
@ryanearles2024
Жыл бұрын
For now, the tolls are waived, but I don't know when the tolls will go into effect.
@gosnooky
5 ай бұрын
CDOT should have built an express flyover from WB-70 to SB-25/NB-25 to EB 70 to help with traffic between DIA and downtown.
MILEAGE MIKE thank you it have changed a lot from 1980"s‼️🤣🤣 alot I was at the late prince concert
In 2017 my boyfriend at the time and I decided we were going to move from the Washington DC area to the Seattle Washington area via road trip…let’s just say I never made it to Seattle and have been in Denver ever since. Something about this place 😢❤😍 not for nothing, if I ever leave here it will more than likely be to the PNW
@Julieber1
Ай бұрын
I find Denver a very fascinating city and her front ranger of Foothills and beautiful mountains. I live outside Saint Louis, MO. I have had desires and wish to move to Highland Rench and live in big, beautiful 4 to 5 Bedroom house with 2 main floors, walk out basement and 3 car garage.
Nice lovely ride along interstate 70 in Denver CO Didn't know traffic was like that in Denver
@gosnooky
5 ай бұрын
That traffic is actually LIGHT for Denver.
Ah yes Denver, the Mile High City! I-70 thru Denver from I-25 to Quebec St. used to be elevated before I-70 went under the park...like what you saw in this video.
I was driving to colorado springs that night
Mike always the Denver traffic that how you know your enter in Denver traffic 🚦
This highway is a e-got looong stretching road good view flat
17:23
I-70 through Denver is way better than it was before. However the 3rd lane really should pick up around E 470.
Colorado springs north side
Can't believe you're already in Colorado after being up in the North east for a while I suppose you're either going to Seattle or Los Angeles
@MileageMikeTravels
Жыл бұрын
Not this year most likely. Just went to Denver to meet up with some people and hang out. West coast will likely be 2024
If I has to be stuck in traffic in Denver, at least there is a great view of the Rocky Mountains in the background (I'm assuming those are the Rockys)
@PelicanGuy
Жыл бұрын
Correct.
@MileageMikeTravels
Жыл бұрын
I can agree with that
Fort Collins Army Base
Hadir 🙋
At the start of this video how fair out from the City of Denver was you. I am talking about the true Denver City Limits, not counting the suburbs. And how fair from the downtown core was you? I also guessing you was going about 75 to 78 MPH.
Search beautiful country there in Colorado is that sunset or sunrise ?
@gosnooky
5 ай бұрын
Dusk.
Ahhh Aurora, land of west Kansas 😂
Thought Denver was more hilly and mountains but it is flat and not mountainous until west of area. 🧐
@willp.8120
Жыл бұрын
Denver sits on the High Plains. It is just east of the Rocky Mountains. It is not actually in the mountains.
@gosnooky
5 ай бұрын
The city itself is rather flat, as it sits at the edge of the plains and mountains. The western metro area is quite hilly, but the hills undulate in a way that roads can still be straight but go up and down gentle hills.
Glad to see my taxes are going to just patching I-70 instead of actually fixing it… FFS
@ChatGPT1111
6 ай бұрын
Those taxes are going to Ukraine.....and 10 million new 'guests' from south of the border....for life.