Rollinsville and Middle Park Wagon Road / Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway Hill Route Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Area
436.3 acres (176.6 ha)
Built
1873 (1873)
Built by
Rollins, John Q.A.
NRHP reference No.
80000881, 97001114[8]
Added to NRHP
Tuesday, September 30, 1980
Rollins Pass, elevation 11,676 ft (3,559 m), is a mountain pass and active archaeological site[9][10][2] in the Southern Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado in the United States. The pass is located on and traverses the Continental Divide of the Americas at the crest of the Front Range southwest of Boulder and is located approximately five miles east and opposite the resort in Winter Park—in the general area between Winter Park and Rollinsville. Rollins Pass is at the boundaries of Boulder, Gilpin, and Grand counties. Over the past 10,000 years,[9] the pass provided a route over the Continental Divide between the Atlantic Ocean watershed of South Boulder Creek (in the basin of the South Platte River) with the Pacific Ocean watershed of the Fraser River, a tributary of the Colorado River.
The abandoned rail route over Rollins Pass was nominated for and accepted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 because of significant events and engineering feats accomplished by railroading efforts in the early 20th century. In 1997, additional areas on the pass were added to the National Register of Historic Places to include achievements made by John Q.A. Rollins and his toll wagon road that traversed the pass.[8]
In 2012, Rollins Pass was listed as one of the most endangered sites in Colorado.[2]: 117
The sign at the summit of Rollins Pass displays four proposed rail tunnel routes through the Continental Divide as alternatives to summiting Rollins Pass; it was the longer Moffat Tunnel that achieved this feat of engineering and was first utilized in February 1928.
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^ abcWright, B. Travis; Wright, Kate (2018). Rollins Pass. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1467127714.
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^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ abLaBelle, Jason M. & Pelton, Spencer R. "Communal hunting along the Continental Divide of Northern Colorado: Results from the Olson game drive (5BL147)", 2013
^Clearinghouse, Passport in Time. "Moffat Road 2016". Passport in Time.
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