Scenic Highway of Legends
National Scenic Byway 81 mi in Colorado. Signed as Highway of Legends.
About the Scenic Highway of Legends
The Scenic Highway of Legends features the Spanish Peaks micro mountain range. In addition to the Spanish Peaks, the roadway features natural attractions, including San Isabel National Forest, Wilderness, Four Colorado State Wildlife Areas, the Gap at Stonewall, and Goemmer Butte. The Scenic Highway of Legends marks a crossroads of cultures, where diverse peoples have protected its intrinsic natural and scenic qualities, and today, the roadway’s travelers are astonished by how profoundly undisturbed this land remains.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: Colorado Scenic & Historic Byway, National Forest Scenic Byway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 4 · 1.2 mi offTrinidad Lake State Park · State park · 73 sites · reservable
- Mile 40 · 3.5 mi offPurgatoire Campground · Forest Service · 23 sites · reservable
- Mile 47 · 3.2 mi offCordova Pass · Forest Service · 4 sites · reservable
- Mile 50 · 2.3 mi offBear Lake Campground (Co) · Forest Service · 14 sites · reservable
- Mile 50 · 2.6 mi offBlue Lake Campground - San Isabel NF (CO) · Forest Service · 16 sites · reservable
- Mile 78 · 0.7 mi offLathrop State Park · State park · 103 sites · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.