Muddy Pass

The Red Sandstone Road - Muddy Pass trail begins at Red Sandstone Road and ends at Hwy north of Wolcott: Commercial snowmobile tours are run up.
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As you complete your seven mile climb, you summit at Rabbit Ears West Summit. However, you are done with your major climbing and a look over your back will give you a view that makes the climb worth it.

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If you climb this pass early in the morning, the early light illuminates the valley below you with vivid colors. Note, however, that morning climbs, even in summer, can be quite cold and you are shaded from the sun for much of the trip.

Muddy Pass

The next seven to miles has you undulating through lush green meadows 9, feet up in the air. The roads are wide and smooth. You can really hammer these hills if you want, but you will miss some great scenery. When you finally get to Rabbit Ears Pass, you have a choice.

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You can turn around and backtrack for eight miles to the west summit and then scream down the pass. This is one road where you can hit some serious speed. Or, you can head down the east flank. Muddy Pass is a mere 3 miles below Rabbit Ears. The roads are wide, but there is one hairpin to watch your speed on. I once saw a biker launch himself into the forest because he took the turn to fast.

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The average grade on this side is 4. If you choose to go past Muddy Pass not really marked, but is at the CO 14 intersection , have fun. If you like riding in high cattle country, then the extension to Kremmling is for you. You will, however, be largely on your own so bring food and extra water.

Kremmling has nice people and a few basic services, but not much else.

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You can say hi to the cattle along the road. Instead of Muddy Pass, you may do better to just turn around at the east summit and go back to Steamboat for a beer or a swim in the hot springs. In the above description, I advocated just doing a day trip, Steamboat to Rabbit Ears, and back because there is nothing east of the pass.


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Via County road This gets the best climb and scenery of Rabbit Ears, the best approach to Gore, and a nice ride among the flat tops west of the Gore range. The ride on the western slope trends upwards with a few rollers.


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The pass straddles the continental divide along the boundary between Jackson and Grand counties. It is named for Muddy Creek , a tributary of the Colorado that descends southward from the pass to join the Colorado at Kremmling. The pass is one of the lower crossings of the continental divide in Colorado, in a gap between the Park Range to the north and the Rabbit Ears Range to the east.

It is rarely closed in winter and has a mild approach on both sides, with no switchbacks or tight spots. It provides the route of U. Highway 40 between Kremmling and Steamboat Springs. The road briefly enters the watershed of the North Platte see North Park.

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Rabbit Ears Pass , which is just to the west of the pass, provides a third crossing of the continental divide along the U. Highway Berthoud Pass being the other.

State Highway 14, Muddy Pass

State Highway 14 from Walden, Colorado has its western terminus at the pass, where it intersects U.