Idaho Springs has a busy roadside landscape that includes the 6&40 Motel. Highways 6 and 40 dance around each other a bit from Denver to here, then they share a common route with I-70 for about twelve miles west of here. At that point Route 40 heads northward and immediately up slope to Berthoud Pass (11,315 feet), while 6 heads west toward Loveland Pass (11,992 feet). Indeed, while crossing Loveland Pass, Route 6 reaches the highest point of any federal highway. (July 1998 photo)

Clear Creek County, Colorado
	This scene in Idaho Springs shows three generations of bridges over Clear Creek. In the foreground is a 1931 concrete bridge and behind it is an earlier bridge that leads to the main downtown street. In the background is the I-70 bridge. (July 1998 photo)
Idaho Springs has a busy roadside landscape that includes the 6&40 Motel. Highways 6 and 40 dance around each other a bit from Denver to here, then they share a common route with I-70 for about twelve miles west of here. At that point Route 40 heads northward and immediately up slope to Berthoud Pass (11,315 feet), while 6 heads west toward Loveland Pass (11,992 feet). Indeed, while crossing Loveland Pass, Route 6 reaches the highest point of any federal highway. (July 1998 photo)