- PAVED - Beartooth
Pass (10940ft): Beartooth Highway between Red
Lodge (Mt) and Cooke City (Mt).
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- PAVED - Snowy Range Pass
(10800ft): paved Wy130 between Laramie and Saratoga over
Medicine Bow Range.
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- PAVED - Battle Lake Pass
(9916ft): paved Wyo70 over forested Sierra Madre Range
between Riverside/ Encampment and Dixon (6520ft). May
still contain some short unpaved sections.
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- PAVED - Powder River Pass
(9666ft): Bighorn Range; US16 between Buffalo and Tensleep;
double summit also goes over Muikress Pass (9500ft).
Canyon and badlands on Tensleep side; has been part of
RAW, the Ride Across Wyoming.
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- MTB - Union
Pass (9210ft): long dirt road between US26 near Du
Noir (Dubois area), and Wy352 about 25 miles north of
Pinedale; runs north-south west of Wind River Range.
Crossed by Hunt's Astorians in 1811 and was the cause of
much confusion for its compilcated drainages during fur
trapper days.
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- PAVED - Foxpark Divide (9142ft):
Wy230 crosses foothills of Mecine Bow mountains between
Wood's Landing and Walden (Co).
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- PAVED - Granite Pass
(8950ft): Bighorn Range; US14 between Shell and Ranchester;
has been part of RAW, the Ride Across Wyoming.
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- MTB - Cheyenne
Pass (8591ft): Laramie Hills; partially paved Happy
Jack Road between Cheyenne and Sherman Hill Summit. From
there Telephone Canyon decends into Laramie.
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- PAVED - Craig Pass
(8260ft): geographicall muddled CD crossing in Yellowstone
National Park. By appearance indistinguisable from other
points along the road. The pass is remarkable for its
confusing geography. The road crosses from Atlantic to
Pacific watersheds while going west to east.
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- MTB - Sherman
Hill Summit (8235ft): Laramie Hills; I80 crosses 1
mile northwest of old historic summit. The historic summit
can be reached by a 1 mile dirtroad detour. This was the
highest point on the Union Pacific section of the first
transcontinental railroad.
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- MTB - Antelope
Pass (8050ft): Laramie Hills; dirt road between Tie
Siding and I80. Road follows UP railroad between Hermosa
and Dale Creek. This road also crosses the old historical
Shermann Hill Summit. In these shallow sage hills wind is
often the primary challenge.
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- PAVED - Dead
Indian Pass (8048ft): Chief Joseph Highway over
Absaroka Mtns between Cody area and Cooke City (Mt).
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- PAVED - Cache La Poudre Pass
(apr. 8000ft): historical name for US285 between Laramie
(7200ft) and Fort Colllins (Co), rolling Front Range
foothills. Summit is just south of Tie Siding.
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- PAVED - Salt River Pass
(7616ft): low pass between Montpelier, Idaho and Smoot,
Star Valley Wyoming.
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- PAVED - Morton Pass
(apr.7300ft): Laramie Hills, between Bosler (apr. 7000ft)
and Wheatland (apr. 5000ft), 65 miles. Barely discenible
grade on Bolser (west) side, and windswept inclined plains
instead of mountains; also called Sybille Pass in
Spraque's book "The Great Gates".
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- MTB - Birdseye
Pass (6993ft): dirt road/ double track trail over Owl
Creek Mtns between Boysen Reservoir (4890ft) and
Thermopolis (4085ft).
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