Colorado Highways Photo Gallery:
General Street Scenes & Signs

This page is general street and sign photos from Colorado, not on the state highway system, listed alphabetically by location. When clicking on a link to a photo, the photo will pop up in a new window so you don't have to keep hitting the "Back" button. The dates listed are when the photo was taken.

Aurora

• Tollgate Creek at Mexico Avenue: Drop Structure and Slotted Curb. First photo shows a large, 20-foot drop structure for Tollgate Creek just upstream of where it crosses under Mexico Avenue. The second photo is of some odd slotted curb that is on Mexico Avenue where it crosses Tollgate Creek's flood plain. I'm not sure if it's slotted so either 1) runoff from Mexico can drain off of the side of the pavement or 2) to allow water to more easily flow across Mexico when Tollgate Creek has a flood event. Maybe it's both. May 2002

Cherry Hills Village

• On-Street Off-Street Bike Trail. An on-street off-street bike trail that's off-street while still being on-street. Quincy Avenue west of University Boulevard. April 2002

Colorado Springs

• Cimarron Bridge Restrictor. In 2006, structural deficiencies were found in the Cimarron Street Bridge east of I-25. Rather than close it entirely, the city decided to keep the bridge open with a severe weight restriction. In order to keep everything off of it other than passenger cars, the city installed vehicle restrictors at each end. The restrictors were built by forming a rectangle out of steel I-beams that only passenger cars would fit through. June 2007
  

Denver

• Bike Lane Marking. The bike lane pavement marking Denver uses. Never seen it anywhere else. March 2002
• Light Rail Transit. A view of the Regional Transportation District's light rail operation, here going down Stout Street at 18th Street downtown. Note on the pole there is a special white signal light for the train. October 1999
• Michigan Left Sign. Southbound Speer Boulevard approaching the intersection at Auraria Parkway. A special overhead sign for the "Michigan left" that drivers must do to take Auraria into downtown. December 2001
• School Zone Signing: Beginning. Holly Street near Jewell Avenue. Shows how Denver has incorporated the fluorescent yellow-green into school zone signs. June 2001
• School Zone Signing: Ending. Oops, a little blurry. Note the "RESUME" at the top of the speed limit sign. June 2001
• Speer Boulevard Tunnel. Southbound Speer Boulevard approaching the tunnel that takes it under Broadway and 6th Avenue. Northbound Speer intersects those streets at grade. October 1999

Douglas County

• Spruce Mountain Road. South of Larkspur, some concrete leftover from way back when this was US 85-87. March 2002

Fort Collins

• A Little Redundancy. Westbound Drake Road at Overland Trail. Without a doubt this sign was installed by the City of Fort Collins City Traffic Operations Department Division. October 1999
• Bikeway. An example of how Fort Collins signs its bike lanes. The bike lane is the area between the two white lines between the parking and driving lanes. Columbia Road east of Stover Street. June 1999
• Fluorescent Yellow-Green School Sign. The city uses many pedestrian and school signs with the recently-adopted strong yellow-green color. Eastbound Stuart Street approaching Stover Street. Shown is the advance sign (S1-1) and farther up the street you can see the one at the crossing (S2-1). June 1999
• Golf Cart Crossing. Eastbound Southridge Greens Boulevard east of Lemay Avenue. Obviously a custom-made sign. October 1999
• Mason Street. A one-way northbound street in downtown that has a mainline Burlington Northern Santa Fe track going down it. The tie-ups it causes are unbelievable. Looking south between Oak Street and Mountain Avenue. June 1999
• School Zone Flashers. How Fort Collins does its school zone flashers at the beginning of the school zone. When on, the flashers alternate top to bottom at about once a second. Northbound Stover Street north of Drake Road. June 1999
• School Zone End. What's at the end of the school zone. June 1999
• Separated Bike Lanes. Northbound Shields Street at Cunningham. Shields Street has these things start and end several times in the mile between Horsetooth Road and Drake Road, it appears because they wanted to preserve old-growth cottonwoods that line the street. October 1999
• Speed Hump. A "speed hump" on Stuart Street east of Overland Trail. Even though it's a speed hump, the sign says "SPEED BUMP". April 2000

Greenwood Village

• Stop Sign-Traffic Circle Hybrid. A bizarre setup on Monaco Street north of Orchard Road. It looks like a miniature traffic circle, but the side streets have stop signs, turning it into an obstruction in the middle of an intersection. It's traffic calming run amok, brought to you by the city that is the king of speed-control stop signs. February 2002

Julesburg

• Oregon Trail Historic Marker. Apparently a portion of the Oregon Trail dipped into Colorado and passed near Julesburg. This marker is located adjacent to the railroad tracks at Cedar Street. May 2007
• Old Cedar Street Railroad Crossing. Now barricaded off, this railroad crossing at Cedar Street was once US 385 heading south out of town. The US 138/385 interchange (which elevated US 385 above the rail line) was built in 1988. May 2007
  
• Cedar Street at 1st Street. This is Cedar looking south at 1st (US 138-385). Back when US 385 turned south here this would have been the main intersection in town, and it was even signalized. You can see the span wires overhead that held the signals. There's still the old control box on the pole in the southeast corner of the intersection. May 2007
• Old US 138-385 Markers on Cedar Street, Overview and Closeup. These old versions of US highway markers are on southbound Cedar Street approaching 1st. Since Cedar north of 1st has never been part of the state highway system (as far as I know) I'm not sure why they were ever installed. The US 138 marker is a "cutout" which was used for a few decades until the 1980s while the US 385 marker is square 3-digit marker. May 2007
  

Longmont

• Hover Street. Center left-turn lane, paved with concrete, continuous lighting, 45mph speed limit, good progression on the signal lights....If only your city's arterials were this nice. Northbound north of Nelson Road. October 1999
• Traffic Complaint Area. Ominous signs on Hover Street at 3rd Avenue. October 1999

Loveland

• Modern Roundabout Part One and Part Two. Two roundabouts on Rocky Mountain Avenue, one at Foxtrail and the other at McWhinney Boulevard. These pictures are looking east on Foxtrail. Picture 2 is to the right of Picture 1. I tried to make a panoramic composite out of the two images, but it didn't look right so you'll have to look at the two pictures separately. October 1999
• Rough Bicycle Crossing. Funky signs on northbound Garfield Avenue approaching the BNSF railroad crossing at 22nd Street. April 2000
• School Zone Flasher. Loveland's version of the school zone flasher. The top and bottom portions of these custom-made S5-1's use the fluorescent yellow-green color. Westbound 1st Street approaching Dotsero Drive. October 1999
• School Zone End. Showing how Loveland signs the end of school zones, with the special custom S5-2 below the speed limit sign. Garfield Avenue at 5th Street. April 2000
  

Moffat Tunnel

The Moffat Tunnel is one of the most famous railroad features in Colorado. The tunnel, between Rollinsville and Winter Park, is one of the very few rail lines still operating in Colorado which crosses the Continental Divide. It opened in 1927 and today is owned by UPRR.

• East Portal 1 • East Portal 2 • East Approach Along South Boulder Creek

Pueblo

• Street Name Sign. Pueblo has some of the nicer street name signs in the state. Large lettering makes it much easier finding your way around town. Photo by Jay Bernard. July 2006

Weld County

• I-25 Frontage Road (Old US 87) Bridge. This bridge on the east I-25 frontage road is over the Little Thompson River just south of SH 56. The plaque on the bridge says it was built in 1938, meaning it was built as SH 185 was being built northward from Denver and later became part of US 87. March 2007
• Platteville US 85 Business Route. This old BR 85 marker is on US 85's west frontage road at CR 28. The road feeds onto old US 85 northward into Platteville. However, this is no longer part of the state-maintained part of BR 85.
  

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