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Category: Outdoors
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Published on Wednesday, 31 December 2008 14:28
Families used to be able to use a $100 annual pass to make as many trips up the Pikes Peak Highway as they chose. This opened up a large area to hiking, fishing, biking, etc. Starting Thursday, an 'unlimited' pass like this will no longer be available. Instead, for the same price, a 'punch card' pass will be issued, that gets an individual 14 trips (for $75), or a family five trips up the highway (for the same $100). Reason is a decrease in visitation this past year. Anglers can still get a $4 pass, and the normal daily fees ($10 per adult and $5 per child, or $35 per car) are not changing. Groups holding special events on the highway will see an increase in their fee as well (now $2000, was $1500). In spite of the fiscal woes, paving will continue as planned (scheduled 2012 completion) due to a court order mandating this. Read more in the
Gazette.
