Argentine Pass - June 22

[rushthezeppelin]

Did anyone attempt the road up from Waldorf?

 

[Curly]

Did anyone attempt the road up from Waldorf?

Yes.
Forgive my lack of knowledge of who's who, but if I recall correctly, blue tacoma (Dom?), light green 5th gen 4Rrunner, red 60 series with white wheels, white 3rd gen 4Runner and myself (fzj 80), all went as far as the pond up the road. The 60, 3rd gen and myself went up from there to where the snow blocked the road and turned around after a few gratuitous pics

 

[PVCsnorkel]

Yes.
Forgive my lack of knowledge of who's who, but if I recall correctly, blue tacoma (Dom?), light green 5th gen 4Rrunner, red 60 series with white wheels, white 3rd gen 4Runner and myself (fzj 80), all went as far as the pond up the road. The 60, 3rd gen and myself went up from there to where the snow blocked the road and turned around after a few gratuitous pics

I have the 60, @MetalYota has the 3rd gen 4runner. We went up 2 more turns after the pond and then hit snow.

 

[DaveInDenver]

At the old town site of Waldorf ( once claimed to have the highest post office in the US- 11,600+ ft).

I know Robert Brown says that in Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns but he only makes a vague reference to being "listed" to support the claim. No reason really to doubt this but it would be interesting to know definitively and maybe see the list of others. It's also possible if the source was mining company records that embellishment to impress investors could be stretching the truth...

I've on and off tried to find corroboration but the USPS only talks about the current one, which is Alma, CO, at 10,578'.

https://facts.usps.com/highest-post-office/

There aren't many permanent towns that were built much higher than this, here in Colorado or anywhere really, and Wikipedia doesn't give an elevation for Waldorf to compare. One outlier that comes to mind is the town of Corona (e.g. Rollins Pass) is said to have been at 11,723' and had a post office. This could be one of those things where a town would physically put their P.O. on a hill above town just to make the claim and would be I bet an interesting story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Colorado

This is pages 216-217 and 1963 is the year "at this writing" for Brown's book.



Mr. Brown reasserts this in another of his books Ghost Town of the Colorado Rockies, this on page 54 about Boreas Pass. This was written in 1968 and seemed to imply the title was self assigned.



In another book, Guide To The Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, Perry Eberhart discussed Corona (pages 74-75, 4th edition revised) and the fact that it was the highest elevation railroad station at the time, although he gives the elevation as 11,600' and not 11,723'. This would I suppose by inference suggest that it could have been the highest post office, too. This was originally written in 1959.

 

[nakman]

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