- Created: November 1, 2023 9:02 pm
- Updated: November 13, 2023 2:02 am
- Distance Instructions
- Distance 20 miles
- Time 22 min
- Speed 53 mph
- Min altitude 7644 ft
- Peak 8212 ft
- Climb 791 ft
- Descent 226 ft
Colorado State Highway 150, a long and straight 15 miles or so but definitely a destination route and hence documented here. If you are in the southern part of the state checking out other roads you must take CO 150 to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The route itself is obviously done on any motorcycle by any rider and although straight, boasts some pretty incredible views all along the ride in. The Sand Dunes are also pretty neat to check out, something you would not consider being present in Colorado.
1. CO 150
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet (230 m) tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States. The park was originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument on March 17, 1932, by President Herbert Hoover. The original boundaries protected an area of 35,528 acres (55.5 sq mi; 143.8 km2). A boundary change and redesignation as a national park and preserve was authorized on November 22, 2000, and then established on September 24, 2004.
Source: Wikipedia
Colorado State Highway 150, a long and straight 15 miles or so but definitely a destination route and hence documented here. If you are in the southern part of the state checking out other roads you must take CO 150 to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The route itself is obviously done on any motorcycle by any rider and although straight, boasts some pretty incredible views all along the ride in. The Sand Dunes are also pretty neat to check out, something you would not consider being present in Colorado.
