LAKE CITY, Colo. - The one-lane roadway occupies a narrow shelf notched into the mountain wall. A dark escarpment towers to one side. The road-edge ledge plummets to an abyss on the other. I glance at ...

Cinnamon Pass, at 12,640 feet in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, is a key feature of the Alpine Loop Scenic Byway, linking Lake City and Silverton. This high-altitude pass offers stunning alpine views, ...

A dilapidated mining cabin in Animas Forks, one of several ghost towns seen along Colorado's Alpine Loop —Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

If heaven is in Colorado, it is somewhere far west in the San Juan Mountains, along the 63-mile Alpine Loop. Heaven probably doesn’t have as many motors. But the traffic from Jeeps, ATVs and dirt ...

Thursday, Jul 23, 2015 5:42 AM Updated Thursday, Jul. 23, 2015 12:44 PM An iconic, ridge-lover’s fantasy, The Catwalk is an 0.4-mile-long knife ridge located north of the Cinnamon Pass Road, east of ...

We hit the road and headed to the San Juans for a different type of adventure. The Lake City Alpine 50 mountain bike race was last weekend, and sticking with our rule to say yes to new things, my wife ...