Destinations · Colorado
CO · 39.6358, -106.3631
Top of the Rockies and Colorado River Headwaters are signed byways within 30 miles of Vail, Colorado.
Understand
Roughly Vail is divided into four zones; West Vail, Vail Village, Lionshead, and East Vail.
Planned by the Byway engine on real roads: every stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature, and the total time counts driving and the stops themselves.
Loop 1 · 8 h window · 166 mi
7 h 36 loop · 7 stops · back by 5:36 PM. Incorporates Top of the Rockies.
Touches Top of the Rockies
Byway's engine bakes one loop from Vail: 8 h, 166 miles, 7 stops. The time counts the driving and the stops themselves.
The 8 h loop stops at Vail Pass Summit, Royal Mountain, Reiling Dredge, Mineral Hill, Country Boy Mine, Top of the Rockies Zip Line and Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 641. Each stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature.
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
The engine starts from town, weaves the byways and verified stops around it, and hands back an honest schedule — zero hallucinations.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.