Quandary Peak is pictured May 21. The 14,265-foot peak is the most popular 14er in Colorado, attracting hikers, climbers and skiers year-round, which has led to the trailhead parking lot overflowing on busy days and creating traffic issues for nearby residents.
Photo by Jason Connolly / Jason Connolly Photography
Summit County officials, along with leaders from the town of Breckenridge, are pushing forward with some strategies to help mitigate the overcrowded parking at the Quandary Peak trailhead, but more work is to be done to ensure surrounding trailheads, including McCullough Gulch, won’t be negatively impacted.
During a Summit Board of County Commissioners work session Tuesday, July 13, Assistant County Manager Bentley Henderson updated the board on how these various strategies are coming together. While some of the measures can be acted on immediately such as adding an additional 15 to 20 spots to the trailhead’s parking lot, striping the lot to make for more organized
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Milwaukee Boat Line vessels at their new dock on the Milwaukee River. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
The company, which operates the double-decker Vista King and Voyageur vessels, relocated upstream to a dock just south of Juneau Avenue along the soon-to-be-renamed N. Old World Third St.
“It was kind of the perfect opportunity,” said owner
Jake Chianelli in an interview. Interstate Parking Co. took over operations of the adjacent surface parking lot at the same time Milwaukee Boat Line was looking to relocate from its decades-long home at 101 W. Michigan St.