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Building the approach to the new Red Cliff arch bridge (Highway 24). Digging equipment at far right midfield in the photo.
[Red Cliff bridge construction photo 4]
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Continuing west on Highway 24 would take you to Minturn. Continuing east would take you to Gilman and Red Cliff. Photo taken by Tom Knight. Tom worked at Gilman as a watchman.
Verso: "Looking west down Eagle River. You can see I'm on top of the world. This shows the S curve on the O. to O. [Ocean to Ocean] Highway. We go to work tonight. Don't know what doing." [written by Tom Knight]
"Old highway on Battle Mountain" BJS
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Photo postcard showing the "New Battle Mountain Highway," U.S. Hwy 24. The view is looking south, going from GIlman to Red Cliff.
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"BATTLE MOUNTAIN is the most striking section of the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway between Tennessee Pass and Glenwood Springs. After the town drops down into the picturesque town of Red Cliff, hidden in the valley of the Eagle River, it cuts its way spectacularly along a great series of sheer, pointed, out-jutting white faced cliffs, gradually rising until it travels along the top of the great Eagle River Cañon far below."
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Blasting to create a road to the approach to the new Red Cliff arch bridge. Railroad bridge over the Eagle River visible at right foreground.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 5]
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A photo postcard of Henry Owens, standing, and Lemley Gates at the top of the mesa when building the Derby Mesa Road, circa 1923. The men are clearing rock and debris after the road skid has passed.
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Building the Derby Mesa Road, circa 1923. Workers with skids and horse teams at right, waiting for the detonation to clear at left.
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Bridge over the Colorado River at Blue Hill, Burns, Colorado. Grand River (Colorado) Hill Road visible at right. Bearden's General Store was built after this photo was taken (it will be behind the bridge).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A steam shovel is moving earth during the early stages of routing U.S. Highway 24 and the Red Cliff bridge so that they bypassed Red Cliff. The construction involved difficult engineering feats in a harsh climate.
11) Convoy
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Truck convoy negotiating the Old Battle Mountain Road. The original rock supported roadway is clearly visible
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) Convoy
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Truck convoy negotiating the Old Battle Mountain Road. The original rock supported roadway is clearly visible. Probably the original image from which the close-up [1984.001.018] was made.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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c.1930: Crossroads at Wolcott, Colorado: Colorado Hwy 11, U.S. Hwy 24.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Cars lined up along Highway 24 for the Dedication and grand opening of the completed Red Cliff Bridge, August 3, 1941.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 13]
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Pedestrians gathered on the Red Cliff Bridge for the dedication and grand opening. The dedication was held at noon on Sunday, August 3, 1941. Governor Ralph L. Carr and other officials attended. The bridge and six miles of new highway built over Battle Mountain cost a total of $636,405. The bridge is 470 ft. long, 209 ft. high; the roadbed is 30 ft. wide and has two 18-inch curbs. It is listed on the Historic Bridge Inventory, Colorado Historical...
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Dump truck waiting for another bucket of dirt and rocks during repairs on Highway 6, just west of Brush Creek/Eagle.
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Looking west down the Eagle River Valley, following I-70.
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The east entrance to Glenwood Canyon in the 1930s. The road was not paved and was very close to the Colorado River which carved the canyon. The road connects Dotsero and Eagle County to Glenwood Springs and Garfield County, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Road maintenance machinery on Tennessee Pass in winter. George Nimon and unidentified man standing next to the plow; an unidentified woman standing on the plow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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County road maintainer caught in trees above Homestake Creek on the Gold Park Road. Dempsey Perkins (county man in Red Cliff who plowed snow) and Buster Beck were plowing the Gold Park Road for the second day in the Winter of 1952. Something went wrong with the maintainer and it went off the road and over the hill with both men in it. The maintainer hung up on a tree and didn't drop into Homestake Creek. Both men made it out with minor injuries....
