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Page 1 of the APRIL 1997 ISSUE OF PASS PATROL CAMPFIRE TALES

The April issue included here contains the stories and not the advertisements. Keep in mind, the stories here were written in 1997.  

This issue includes
Rollins Pass West Side

Willow Creek Ranch

 

ANOTHER OF THE MANY ADVENTURES OF PASS PATROL

 
 

ROLLINS PASS WEST SIDE  -  Campfire Tales - April, 1997

Needles Eye Tunnel

There are few passes in Colorado whose name is better known than Rollins Pass.  It began as a mule trail between Denver and Winter Park.  Indians, fur trappers, lumberjacks, and miners used it extensively long before tracks were laid across its saddle for the iron horse.

The Needle’s Eye Tunnel still attracts hundreds of visitors each year.  A rock slide closed it in 1979.  Prior to that slide, the tunnel was used by 4X4s to cross Rollins Pass.  The tunnel was repaired in 1987 but another slide closed it in 1990.  Because of that closure, there is no longer a motorized route across Rollins Pass.

 
 

The Needles Eye Tunnels attracts hundreds of visitor each year but it can no longer be entered.   Getting from one end to the other involves a steep climb up and over the top.

 
 
   

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