Boreas pass is another one of those Colorado mountain passes that is passable in virtually any vehicle. It is dirt all the way from Como to Breckenridge and rises to 11,481 feet. It's also another one of those Colorado mountain passes that server the gold and silver miners of the 1870s. Originally it served as passage from the South Park area to the gold mining area around Breckenridge.
It's actually quite amazing that a narrow gauge railroad once climbed the pass to the town of Boreas at the summit where you can still see the remains and then down again into the valley where modern day Breckenridge sits.
Now days Sunday afternoon drivers, bicyclists and ,in the winter, cross country skiers are the visitors to the pass.
What's left of the town of Boreas at the top of the pass at 11,482 feet.
Heck, the trees don't even like to live up here. It would be God awful cold her in the middle of winter.
I suppose the steam engines of the time got pretty thirsty by the time they reached this summit. I wonder what kinds of things this old water tower saw it its day.
Looking down toward the city of Breckenridge.
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