Show Easy East Grades to Top TO of Pike sPeak Peak By Dr DrEA XEA NEA Sen Ice COLORADO SPRINGS Colo Aug Au 20 Its It's Its 2028 miles from sea level where the Pikes Peak to Ocean highway starts at New York to the summit of Pikes Peak feet above sea level at Colorado Springs It Is the highest elevation reached by the transcontinental motor highway high high- highway way as It crosses the United States That's a climb of only about seven seven feet to the mile when measured on the map and one that motorists would feol Thai was fairly negligible In a tour lour of that length Yet the grade to the summit of Pikes Peak perhaps is barely more than the average erace for the entire trip from the east A wide modern motor highway leads leads' direct from Colorado Springs the hub of the Pikes Peak region to the summit of this famous mountain mountains Thousands of or motorists mot drive their cars cans up the highway ay each year jear and find little difficulty In making the climb which measures 18 miles each way For those who prefer other means of locomotion In mountain climbing there Is a cog road whose trains make regular trips to the summit Others make the trip by burro back or afoot although nowadays the gasoline gl route Is most popular OVERLOOKS From the summit the motorist gets K II view of the surrounding country which Includes hundreds of Square re miles of Rocky mountain peaks and other hundreds of miles of the great plains which sweep eastward toward Kansas The view incites the motorist Into making other trips In the Pikes Peak region The region abounds with paved and graveled gra motor highways which extend to the highest peaks in inthe inthe inthe the Practically all the drives originate at Colorado Springs One of the new new- newest newest newest est Is the recently completed Broad- Broad moor Cheyenne mountain highway which In 30 minutes minutes' time affords a aview aview view lew from an elevation of feet above sea level unequaled elsewhere In Inthe inthe Inthe the west Colorado Springs and Broadmoor lie directly beneath Chey Chey- Cheyenne Cheyenne Cheyenne enne mountain f e S va t. t 4 crews r e The view to Pikes Peak Is as wonderful as from It The great mountain overlooks the country shown in the map The Corley Mountain highway i I which extends extend from Colorado Springs Springs' to Cripple P Creek r famous I gold g camp a tl fler is 45 miles long g and is s built II over the abandoned roadbed of the old Short Line railroad It n was this acen- acen scenery scenery ery cry that brought the exclamation from Theodore Roosevelt Its Ifs the trip that bankrupts the English language While the Corley highway rises to feet above sea level It Is In such easy grades that the entire trip may be made In high gear The Pikes Peak to Ocean after passing through Colo Colo- Colorado Colorado I rado Springs and its host hogi ho t of attractions I attractions winds through historic Ute tile pass on Its westward way It was vas through this pass that the Indians of the mountains came down to drink the theaters waters aters of Manitou whose springs are are arc famous the world over |