Spring Creek Pass
| Spring Creek Pass | |
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| File:Spring Creek Pass.JPG Looking north across the pass. | |
| Elevation | 10,898 ft (3,322 m)[1] |
| Traversed by | SH 149 |
| Location | Hinsdale County, Colorado, U.S. |
| Range | San Juan Mountains |
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| Topo map | USGS Slumgullion Pass |
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Spring Creek Pass, elevation 10,898 ft (3,322 m), is a mountain pass on the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The pass is traversed by State Highway 149, and the Continental Divide Trail and Colorado Trail follow the divide and cross the highway here. Somewhat unusually for a pass on the Continental Divide, it is not the highest point on the highway in the vicinity; heading north from the pass, the road climbs over the considerably higher Slumgullion Summit before descending toward Lake City.
Water Diversion
[edit | edit source]Around 1910, the Tabor Ditch was constructed to divert water from tributaries of Cebolla Creek in the Gunnison River basin over the continental divide at Spring Creek Pass into Big Spring Creek in the Rio Grande basin. This 0.5 miles (0.80 km) ditch was originally constructed to divert water for irrigation, but it is now owned by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The ditch can carry approximately 30 cubic feet per second (0.85 m3/s), and in an average year, it diverts about 1,400 acre⋅ft (1.7 million m3).[2]
See also
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ John N. Winchester, A Historical View: Transmountain Development in Colorado, 2000; retrieved 2018-03-09.
External links
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