Gallery

The roads, passes and town that Grand Tour Gravel is being planned around. The race has not been run yet, so these are pictures of the country, not of the event.

Leadville from the hills east of town in autumn, with Turquoise Lake and Galena and Wildcat mountains beyond — **Leadville and Turquoise Lake.** The town in fall color, with Turquoise Lake and the Galena Mountain ridge to the west. Start, finish and expo are planned here.Photo: Clyde Charles Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two horses grazing in a fenced pasture below snow-covered Mount Elbert — **Mount Elbert.** Colorado's highest peak, 14,440 feet, from a pasture about five miles southwest of Leadville in May.Photo: David Herrera, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Aerial view of the snow-streaked ridges of the Sawatch Range around Mount Elbert — **The Sawatch Range from the air.** Mount Elbert and the surrounding Sawatch Range, the line of fourteeners along the west side of the valley.Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A wide gravel road leading toward snow-covered Mount Massive under a blue sky — **Mount Massive from near Twin Lakes.** A graded road near Twin Lakes with Mount Massive, Colorado's second-highest peak, ahead.Photo: David Herrera, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A rocky dirt road winding through spruce trees with distant peaks on the horizon — **Hagerman Pass road, east side.** The road coming down from Hagerman Pass toward Turquoise Lake, with loose rock underfoot and spruce on both sides.Photo: Bilariusz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Snow-dusted ridgeline of Mount Massive above a deep forested valley — **Mount Massive from Hagerman Pass.** The Mount Massive ridgeline across a forested valley, seen from the Hagerman Pass road in early October.Photo: Bilariusz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rocky shoreline and clear, calm water at Turquoise Lake in early light — **Turquoise Lake.** The reservoir just west of town in early light. The basecamp lodge sits in the country around this lake.Photo: Sayamindu Dasgupta, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The wooden Mosquito Pass summit sign with wagon wheels on a bare, rocky saddle — **Mosquito Pass summit.** The summit marker on Mosquito Pass, one of the highest roads in North America, with Kuss Peak behind.Photo: Clyde Charles Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A narrow road cut across a steep talus slope above a wide valley, under heavy clouds — **Mosquito Pass road.** The road traversing loose talus near the top of Mosquito Pass, looking out from below Treasurevault Mountain and Mosquito Peak.Photo: Clyde Charles Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rocky alpine tundra in the foreground and a broad mountain valley below a cloud-streaked sky — **Buckeye Peak from Mosquito Pass.** Above treeline on the pass, looking toward Buckeye Peak. Rock, thin air and no shelter from the weather.Photo: Clyde Charles Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Collapsed timbers of an old mine structure in grass among conifers, with bare hills behind in evening light — **Ibex Mine remains.** Weathered timbers that were likely part of the Ibex Mine, in the old mining district east of Leadville.Photo: D&RG Railfan, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Orange and gold aspens beside a dirt road under a deep blue sky — **Weston Pass Road.** Aspens turning in late September along the Weston Pass road, the old wagon route south of Leadville.Photo: KimonBerlin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A line of UTVs parked on a dirt two-track beside a meadow of yellow wildflowers, mountains in the distance — **On tour above Leadville.** A guided UTV group stopped beside a summer wildflower meadow on the high roads outside town.Photo courtesy of Leadville Offroad Adventures, basecamp partner

Two UTVs on a rocky mountain road lined with golden aspens — **Fall on the mining roads.** UTVs climbing a rocky road through aspens at peak fall color.Photo courtesy of Leadville Offroad Adventures, basecamp partner

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Credits

Who took these

The landscape photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the Creative Commons license listed for each one. They are resized and cropped for the web and otherwise unchanged. Each file page has the original image and the full license terms. The two tour photos were supplied by Leadville Offroad Adventures, a basecamp partner.

Photo	Author	License	Source
Leadville and Turquoise Lake	Clyde Charles Brown	CC BY-SA 4.0	Commons file page
Mount Elbert	David Herrera	CC BY 2.0	Commons file page
The Sawatch Range from the air	Ken Lund	CC BY-SA 2.0	Commons file page
Mount Massive from near Twin Lakes	David Herrera	CC BY 2.0	Commons file page
Hagerman Pass road, east side	Bilariusz	CC BY-SA 4.0	Commons file page
Mount Massive from Hagerman Pass	Bilariusz	CC BY-SA 4.0	Commons file page
Turquoise Lake	Sayamindu Dasgupta	CC BY-SA 2.0	Commons file page
Mosquito Pass summit	Clyde Charles Brown	CC BY-SA 4.0	Commons file page
Mosquito Pass road	Clyde Charles Brown	CC BY-SA 4.0	Commons file page
Buckeye Peak from Mosquito Pass	Clyde Charles Brown	CC BY-SA 4.0	Commons file page
Ibex Mine remains	D&RG Railfan	CC BY 3.0	Commons file page
Weston Pass Road	KimonBerlin	CC BY-SA 2.0	Commons file page
On tour above Leadville	Leadville Offroad Adventures	Used with permission	leadvilleoffroadadventures.com
Fall on the mining roads	Leadville Offroad Adventures	Used with permission	leadvilleoffroadadventures.com

Aspens in fall color beside the Weston Pass road

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