Old Monarch Pass - Chaffee / Gunnison Counties - Colorado - 11,375 feet - On the Continental Divide
Porphyry Creek to west. South Arkansas River to east.

FR-237 north of Monarch Pass
gravel - road bike, but dual sport is better

photos by Randy Bishop, 7/7/2007 during the Dirty Dozen ride

At the summit.

At the summit.

Google Maps

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Google Earth

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Garmin MapSource

Google Maps, Cumberland to Old Monarch

1940s USGS Topographic Map shows current (red/white), old (gray), original (gray dashes)

#70 - photos by Randy Bishop, 8/12/2006

At the summit.

At the summit.

At the summit.

At the summit.

#70 - photo by Randy Bishop, 6/11/2005

At the summit.

At the summit.

At the summit.

photos by Steve Mallison and Wade

Steve at the summit.

Wade's bike at the summit.

The 1929-vintage History Colorado (State Historical Society of Colorado) marker read:
Monarch Pass. Across the Continental Divide between Arkansas and Gunnison River drainages. Altitude
11,386 feet. The Monarch Mining District, opened in the late seventies, lies east of the pass. Improved
highway opened 1921. Erected with the U.S. Forest Service, 1929.