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Eisenhower Tunnel
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel on I-70 Westbound at Loveland Pass
- Location
- Summit County, Colorado
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Constructed started March 15, 1968; tunnel opened March 8, 1973
- Design
- Tunnel
- Dimensions
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Total length: 8,943.7 ft. (1.7 mi.)
Deck width: 40.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.9 ft.
- Also called
- Eisenhower-Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel (official name for both tunnels)
Straight Creek Tunnel (first name)
Eisenhower Memorial Bore - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.67778, -105.93250 (decimal degrees)
39°40'40" N, 105°55'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/420028/4392410 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Loveland Pass
- Elevation
- 11158 ft. above sea level
- Inventory numbers
- CDOT F-13-Y (Colorado Dept. of Transportation structure number)
BH 45437 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 28,800
Update Log
- August 6, 2017: New photo from Steve Conro
- July 10, 2017: Merged duplicate pages
- July 9, 2017: Added by Craig Philpott
- June 1, 2010: Added by Robert Elder
Related Bridges
- Johnson Tunnel (Same project)
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
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