OURAY, Colo. – There’s a good reason to drive up to Engineer Pass, a four-wheel route that is part of the famous Alpine Loop in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. It’s a long walk. For ...

If heaven is in Colorado, it is somewhere far west in the San Juan Mountains, along the 63-mile Alpine Loop. Heaven probably doesn’t have as many motors. But the traffic from Jeeps, ATVs and dirt ...

LAKE CITY, Colo. - The one-lane roadway occupies a narrow shelf notched into the mountain wall. A dark escarpment towers to one side. The road-edge ledge plummets to an abyss on the other. I glance at ...

Before you hang up the rig for good, you’ve got to give this classic mountain route a try. It’s a ground-level tour of the rough and rugged San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado, beginning in the ...