Colorado Department of Transportation
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CDOT Homepage
Traveler info, including current road conditions,
lane closure bulletins, traffic cams, VMS messages, major
construction projects' websites, etc.
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Other Official Colorado Sites
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Other Road-Related Sites
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Colorado
Neighboring States
Federal Highway Administration
Others
- The
Unofficial Minnesota Highway Site by Steve Riner,
North
Star Highways by Monte Castleman, Magnolia
Meanderings by Adam Froehlig, Bridges of the Mississippi by John Weeks. All dealing with
highways in Minnesota, where I grew up.
- Route
Markers from around the world by James Lin
- Chris Bessert's Highway Pages, an excellent
site detailing state highways in Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Ontario
- Shields
Up! by David Kendrick, a cool site which creates very
realistic route markers
- Java
Freeway Signmaker by Scott Oglesby, a Java site
allowing you to make realistic freeway signs
- Microsimulation
of Road Traffic, a site with a Java applet letting
the user set some parameters for a stretch of road and
seeing the effect signals, onramps and grades have on the
flow.
- Open
Directory: Road Sites, a directory of road-related
sites on the Web
- The
Highway Kickoff Page by Andrew Field, another
directory
- misc.transport.road
newsgroup, the place where all the self-described
roadgeeks hang out.
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Maps and Geography
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Colorado Media
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Books Worth Checking Out
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- John Fielder's Best of Colorado, John Fielder, Westcliffe Publishers, 2002
- The Roads that Built America, Dan McNichol, Barnes & Noble, 2003
- The Passes of Colorado, Ed & Gloria Helmuth, Pruett, 1994
- Denver Streets: Names, Numbers, Locations, Logic, Phil Goodstein, New Social Publications, 1995
- The High Road, Marion Wiley, Colorado Department of Highways, 1976
- Glenwood Canyon: From Origin to Interstate, Conrad Schader, Regio Alta Publications, 1996
- Mapsco Pierson Guides maps, covering much of Colorado's Front Range in various editions
- Colorado Atlas and Gazetteer, DeLorme
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