Cottonwood Pass by motorcycle
Cottonwood Pass tops out at 12,126 ft (3,696 m) in Colorado. It is the highest of the 63 passes in Colorado on the Motoseyir map. Below: the road surface, when it is usually closed, the passes around it and a loop you can ride over it.
At a glance
- Elevation
- 12,126 ft (3,696 m)
- Location
- Colorado, United States
- Road surface
- Paved
- Winter
- Usually closed to motor vehicles from November to May, going by the seasonal closure recorded for the road. Dates move with the snow every year, so check the road authority’s current notice before you go.
- Coordinates
- 38.8279, -106.4092
- Sources
- Wikipedia · OpenStreetMap
Elevation is the figure on the pass’s OpenStreetMap entry or its source page; the point is the summit on the road itself.
Ride a loop over Cottonwood Pass
The web route planner opens with Cottonwood Pass as the start point. Choose a direction, how long you want to ride and how twisty the roads should be, and it draws up to three round trips that come back to the pass. Send the one you like to your phone with a QR code and ride it in Motoseyir.
Passes near Cottonwood Pass
- Cumberland Pass 10 mi SW · 12,014 ft
- Independence Pass 21 mi NW · 12,103 ft
- Monarch Pass 23 mi S · 11,312 ft
- Trout Creek Pass 24 mi E · 9,347 ft
- Hagerman Pass 30 mi N · 11,926 ft
- Marshall Pass 31 mi S · 10,843 ft
Cottonwood Pass in the Motoseyir app
Cottonwood Pass is on Motoseyir’s pass map with its altitude and exact location, along with 1,600+ passes in 36 countries. Add it to your tour and go.
If your route crosses a pass that may be closed this month, the app tells you before you set off, and Generate a tour skips closed passes. Passes you ride over are ticked off from your ride log automatically.
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Pass data: Motoseyir’s pass list, compiled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the source page linked above.