Mountain pass · Colorado

Fall River Pass by motorcycle

Fall River Pass tops out at 11,795 ft (3,595 m) in Colorado. It is the 7th 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.

Fall River Pass
Photo: Thomson M, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Elevation
11,795 ft (3,595 m)
Location
Colorado, United States
Road surface
Paved
Winter
Usually closed to motor vehicles from October 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
40.4406, -105.7560
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 Fall River Pass

The web route planner opens with Fall River 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.

Plan a loop over Fall River Pass

Passes near Fall River Pass

Fall River Pass in the Motoseyir app

Fall River 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.