Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Traversing a Colorado mountain pass during a storm in the dead of winter is a harrowing experience. Drivers with white knuckles and gritted teeth navigate ...

About 90% of the tall spruce in the area have been killed by beetles MONARCH PASS – Sergio Bernal casually flicks his wrist and the towering spruce falls. The Oregon forester presses a button and ...

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) - The Colorado Department of Transportation announced Friday the completed installation of the Colorado's newest remote control avalanche mitigation system, this one on ...

Monarch Pass straddles the Continental Divide 23 miles west of the town of Salida. It is the only Colorado pass that has a commercial tourist operation other than a gift shop located on its summit.

If you’re reading this, you’re likely from Colorado – so you know that when it comes to weather, our beautiful state has quite a few tricks up its sleeve. Case in point? These photos of Monarch Pass.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A blast of wind hit 148 mph on Monarch Pass Thursday, the highest gust recorded in Colorado by the National Weather Service. The gust, out of the west, was ...

8:30 am Update: Monarch Pass has been opened. Monarch ski area will have normal hours of operation. Heavy snow over Monarch Pass has resulted in an avalanche which has closed the road until further ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Motorists planning on traveling on U.S. Highway 50 near Monarch Pass should expect traffic delays. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) says beginning ...

Why we love it: Venture away from Denver and the I-70 hubbub to score solitude in the San Isabel National Forest. This mellow outing delivers just enough uphill to feel like you’ve earned the ...

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Chaffee County Public Health have confirmed a case of measles in an out-of-state resident in Monarch Pass. The person possibly exposed ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Another potential measles exposure site has been reported in Colorado, this time near Monarch Pass in Chaffee County. The case was confirmed by the Colorado Department of Public Health ...