At noon he began to come down from Vail Pass into Vail itself, passing the condominiums and the singles apartment complexes.

During our week we drove 558 miles, including trips to the stores and high-altitude lower-gear driving up Vail Pass, and averaged 30.2 miles a gallon.

The construction of the freeway over Vail Pass is also listed as an engineering marvel.

The route of US 6 over Vail Pass has a distinctive "V" shape.

The Vail Pass downhill tour on the bike path is also popular, especially with.

Driving last winter in white-out conditions over Vail Pass, Mr. Smith realized he might not make it home.

Midday mountain traffic wasn't bad over Vail Pass, and the Eisenhower Tunnel approach was merely aggravating, not paralyzing.

The portion now numbered U.S. Highway 6 came about in 1937 when the route over Vail Pass was paved.

"Today, Vail Pass has been closed because of avalanches," Scott Smith, aviation director for the Aspen airport, said on a recent snowy afternoon.