Ophir Pass Near Telluride Colorado 8/14/2019
This pass isn't too hard but it can be a little scary with the loose rock and cliff. This pass connects Silverton and Telluride. The other side of the pass near Silverton isn't hard at all.
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Ophir Pass - Between Silverton and Telluride - Colorado - June 2016 - CPO and Drew
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Some footage from our Colorado trip in June 2016. Elevation at the pass is 11,789 feet.
Ophir Pass Telluride, Colorado
This is Ophir pass on 7-13-14. It comes out to hiway 550, the million dollar hiway between Silverton and Ouray, Co. This is the FJ Summit 2014.
Ophir Pass 4WD Trail - Silverton, Colorado
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Ophir Pass is often noted as possibly the easiest of the well-known 4x4 passes in the area. The off-road trail takes you along the San Juan Range towards Telluride and ends up in the town of Ophir. This old mining town, started in 1881, peaked at about 500 before the mining ended and now has a bustling population of roughly 180 people. These lucky folks sit in a bowl surrounded by beautiful 13,000 ft peaks all around.
You actually travel through two forests here and at waypoint 6 the trail designation number changes from 679 to 630 as you move over the pass and move from the San Juan Forest to the Uncompahgre National Forest. While some of the shelf roads may test your fortitude, the views off this iconic trail in the San Juan’s is well worth an afternoon.
For Jeep owners, there’s a special note here. Jeep has designated some trails as Badge of Honor trails and this is one of the few in Colorado. Its fame means that Jeep will recognize if you ran it and provide you with a badge top put on your rig showing you completed the trail.
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Imogene Pass Off-Road Trail - Telluride, Colorado
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Imogene Pass is truly an offroading icon of the beautiful state of Colorado. Offering gorgeous scenery and traversing Colorado backcountry rich in mining history, Imogene Pass offers an opportunity to look back into time and relive what it would have like to live and work in this area. What was at one point one of the richest gold and silver mining areas in Colorado, the remnants of huge mining structures and machines are plentiful. Information about these areas are documented along the route on permanent signs and placards. Book-ended by the beautiful towns of Telluride and Ouray at either end of the trail, Imogene Pass offers travelers the ability to get away from civilization yet never being very far from a warm meal and bed if that's what is desired.
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BLACK BEAR PASS JEEP RIDE *dangerous* | Telluride, Colorado
We conquered Black Bear Pass in our Jeep Wrangler! It was crazy, but so worth it! Definitely recommend if you are in the Ouray/Telluride, Colorado area. Stay tuned for more videos from our Colorado vacation!
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Imogene Pass
Jeep ride to Imogene pass overlooking Telluride Colorado. 13,141 feet
Ophir Pass
Heading up Ophir Pass, near Ouray, Colorado 9-11-2014
Ophir Pass To Ouray, Colorado
This is the road trip from the end of Ophir trail to Ouray.
The Colorado 14er Project - Day 2: Telluride & Ophir Pass
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On Day #2 of the project we took a day off from hiking a fourteener (although there is still a pretty rad hike in there), and explored the town of Telluride, CO. Come enjoy some scenery and have a drink with us!
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Overland Camping at Alta Lakes, Telluride, CO
Some footage of the views from the campsite at Alta Lakes near Telluride, CO
Imogene Pass
Imogene Pass Ouray Colorado
Black Bear Pass, Imogene Pass, Telluride Colorado Jeep Trip
This is my favorite video from a series of videos of our 2016 Colorado Jeep Trip! Some awesome views and scenery... in this video we took the jeeps through Black Bear Pass, Imogene Pass. We stayed in Ouray Colorado and couldn't have had a better trip. If you like this video, check out our others of our trip, I shot them all with a phantom 4 and edited on a Mac using Final cut. Enjoy!
Ophir Pass, Colorado 1989
An old slideshow of Ophir Pass. The Ophir Pass road turns off of the Silverton, Ouray, highway and is a shortcut down to Telluride. The scenery is gorgeous and you top out at 11,789 ft. The road is good but passing another vehicle on the shelf section of the road can be scary as the road is narrow and it is a long way down.
These pictures are from 1989.
The Famous Off-Road Trail Black Bear Pass - Telluride, Colorado
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Black Bear Pass Off-Road Trail in Colorado was originally constructed in the late 1800's to service the Black Bear Mine and subsequently re-opened for recreational travel in 1959. Few trails in the United States have attained the legendary status that Black Bear Pass has. The ascent from US 550 begins near the summit of Red Mountain Pass, historically known as the Million Dollar Highway. The initial climb is easy and scenic, with beautiful wildflowers carpeting the high mountain meadows. Waterfalls cascade from alpine snow melt as you climb to the 12,840 foot summit. The descent into Telluride is vastly different, with narrow shelf roads and steep drop-offs. The descent into Telluride is highlighted by the stunning 365 foot Bridal Veil Falls topped by the Smuggler-Union Hydroelectric Power Plant, better known as the Bridal Veil Powerhouse. The trail descends adjacent to Bridal Veil Falls, with some of the tightest switchbacks a vehicle can travel through. Black Bear Pass' infamy has even been penned into a bluegrass song, written and performed by C.W. McCall:
Mary Elizabeth drawed a picture of the road; it looked like a whole bunch a' Zs and Ws all strung together. And RJ took one look at it and said that the only way that Jeep car is goin' down that road is over her dead body. Then a rock slipped out from under the wheel and the U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep car went right over the edge of the cliff. Yahoo-oo-oo-oo!
C.W. McCall - Black Bear Road 1975
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Colorado 2016 Part 1 - Ophir Pass
Up and over Ophir Pass in my 2010 F150.
San Juan Mountains 2015
Dual Sport Bike Trip to the San Juans in Colorado June 2015 on a 2009 Suzuki DRZ-400S and 2015 KTM 350 XCF-W.
Rode through Ouray, Lake City, Silverton, Ophir, Telluride. Took Yankee Boy, Ophir Pass, Last Dollar Road, Engineer Pass, Cinnamon Pass, Corkscrew Gulch, Poughkeepsie Gulch, and Imogene, and several other roads... Black Bear was closed..
Expedition Utah #7 - Colorado Passes (FINALE)
It's time to start heading home, but not before seeing some of the best of what Colorado has to offer! We head out from Last Dollar Road, near Telluride, to Ophir Pass, and Imogene Pass, near Ouray. Colorado never disappoints, and has some great camping!
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