Tennessee Pass - Eagle/Lake Counties - Colorado - 10,424 feet - On the Continental Divide
(other names - Arkansas, Tenth Mountain)
South Fork of the Eagle River to north. Tennessee Creek to south..

US-24 north of Leadville
pavement - road bike

photos by Randy Bishop, 7/20/2018

At the summit.

At the summit.

At the summit, looking south.

At the summit, looking north.

At the summit.

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Tennessee Pass

Vintage 1929 marker

Vintage 1929 marker

Tennessee Pass

#32 - photos by Randy Bishop, 9/8/2005

At the summit.

At the summit.

At the summit. 10th Mountain Division Memorial.

The 1929-vintage History Colorado (State Historical Society of Colorado) marker reads:
This memorial is the property of the State of Colorado. Tennessee Pass. Across Continental Divide between
Arkansas and Eagle Rivers. Altitude 10,424 feet. Named from Tennessee Fork of the Arkansas. Explored by
Fremont and Kit Carson 1845. Railroad constructed 1881. Erected by the State Historical Society of
Colorado from the Mrs. J. N. Hall Foundation and by the State Highway Department and the U.S. Forest
Service. 1929.