Topo map USGS Slumgullion Pass Range San Juan Mountains | Elevation 3,323 m | |
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Location Hinsdale County, Colorado, U.S. Traversed by Colorado State Highway 149 Similar Slumgullion Pass, San Juan Mountains, Cochetopa Pass, Stony Pass, Lake San Cristobal | ||
Spring Creek Pass, elevation 10,889 ft (3,319 m), is a mountain pass on the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The pass is traversed by State Highway 149 and the Colorado Trail. Somewhat unusually for a pass on the Continental Divide, it is not the highest point on the highway in the vicinity; heading north from the pass, the road climbs over the considerably higher Slumgullion Summit before descending toward Lake City.
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Map of Spring Creek Pass, Colorado 81235, USA
Water DiversionEdit
Around 1910, the Tabor Ditch was constructed to divert water from tributaries of Cebolla Creek in the Gunnison River basin over the continental divide at Spring Creek Pass into Big Spring Creek in the Rio Grande basin. This 0.5 mile (0.8 km) ditch was originally constructed to divert water for irrigation, but it is now owned by the Colorado Division of Wildlife. The ditch can carry approximately 30 cubic feet per second (0.85 m3/s), and in an average year, it diverts about 1400 acre-feet (1.7 million m3).