Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnels
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Tunnel in Clear Creek County, Colorado
The Eisenhower Tunnel, officially the Eisenhower–Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel, is a dual-bore, four-lane vehicular tunnel in the western United States, approximately 60 miles west of Denver, Colorado. The tunnel carries Interstate 70 under the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains.
Address: Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel, Keystone, CO 80435
Hours: Open 24 hours
Phone: (303) 759-2368 ⋅ (303) 569-2698
Located about 60 miles west of Denver on Interstate 70, EJMT traverses through the Continental Divide at an average elevation of 11,112 feet. When originally ...
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Johnson Memorial Tunnel, is a dual-bore, four-lane vehicular tunnel in the western United States, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The ...
December 21, 1979- The Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Bore opened to eastbound traffic. The Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel was now complete with two lanes of ...
Mar 15, 2023 · The Johnson Tunnel. Although the two-lane Eisenhower tunnel carried traffic in both directions, more than 1 million vehicles had passed through ...
Running through the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains, the Eisenhower–Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel is among the highest car tunnels in the world ...
Dec 4, 2023 · Carved through the solid granite of Loveland Pass, this tunnel spans 1.7 miles, making it the longest mountain tunnel in North America. It ...
The 1.7 mile-long Eisenhower/Johnson tunnels are locat- ed approximately 60 miles west of Denver. They are the highest vehicular tunnels in the world, with an ...