Once the highway climbs the Liverpool Range to the Northern Tablelands, most sections provide excellent driving.
In about twenty miles, the highway turns right and climbs through some twenty-eight hundred foot hills.
As Colorado's main east-west highway climbs into the Rockies, it becomes the Main Street for the state's ski areas from Loveland to Vail.
The highway then climbs toward King's Hill, a major pass through the Little Belt Mountains.
Past here, the highway turns north and climbs a hill, passing the Hawthorne Gospel Church on the right.
They reached the sharp curves and were hitting them fast as the highway climbed, but with each spurt, Cranston had to brake hard at the turn.
The highway hardly ever climbed out of the dense green stuff to give you a real view of it.
The highway climbs 5,445 feet over the Beartooth Mountains.
From Arco, the highway turns northwest and climbs the Big Lost River valley through Mackay.
It is at this point that the highway climbs the Marulan Ramp, which is part of the divide between the Shoalhaven and Wollondilly River systems.