Nah, I'm a "poor" I drive the MSM 3Holy *sugar* that’s phenomenal news! We’re actually coming back through tonight and this would be a godsend. I think I saw your model S with the vanity plates in Ridgway yesterday?
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Nah, I'm a "poor" I drive the MSM 3Holy *sugar* that’s phenomenal news! We’re actually coming back through tonight and this would be a godsend. I think I saw your model S with the vanity plates in Ridgway yesterday?
Yep that's the one! Thanks for all the updates over the last few days folks, we were able to Supercharge in Montrose yesterday and it was the difference between getting home last night vs. having to stay another night in a hotel.That might have been my S-60. I charge in Ridgway when I have reason to be down in town for awhile and did so yesterday afternoon. I've had the license plates for more than nine years now:
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Looks like it, people are charging and it's showing in the app 4/8 in use, so it seems it's fine now. No guarantees for the future, but it's probably fineI’m curious is it’s open now (12/30) as I’ll be driving through there in a day or so. Thanks!
Thanks. Interesting, my app shows none available and none being used.Looks like it, people are charging and it's showing in the app 4/8 in use, so it seems it's fine now. No guarantees for the future, but it's probably fine
Estimated weekly traffic impacts through November 2022
Work Hours: Monday-Fridays 8 AM-5:30 PM
Nightwork: Monday-Thursday 7:30 PM-6:30 AM
Monday-Friday OPEN for single-lane, alternating traffic operations in the morning, midday, and evening during the following times:
- 6:30 – 8:30 AM (Mondays open to two-way traffic)
- 12:30 – 1:30 PM
- 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Full roadway closures all other times:
- 8:30 AM-12:30 PM
- 1:30-5:30 PM
- 7:30 PM-6:30 AM
Fully OPEN on the weekends to two-way traffic (5:30 PM Friday to 8:30 AM Monday)
Motorists should plan in advance, and expect long wait times during the queue for the Monday-Friday single-lane openings, alternating traffic operations in the morning, midday, and evening. And full roadway closures reduced speed limits and narrowed roads. Significant delays are anticipated. Restrictions for vehicles over 70 feet in length and 10 feet in width are in place through the project area.
Traffic schedule and timeline are subject to change.
If you have a car with at least 200 RM of range I suggest charging extra and taking the longer detour. One disadvantage of weekend travel, especially when getting closer to the Front Range (Denver metro area) is that roads are more crowded. I prefer weekday travel between Poncha Springs and Denver/Colorado Springs.Ugh. This will almost certainly impact my road trip in August, unless I manage to thread one of those single-lane needles. Thanks for the heads up! Perhaps I should peruse DOT sites next month for construction notices in the states I'm driving through.
I appreciate that advice. I'll be spending a night in Gunnison as I'm heading east, and there's no way I can get my wife up early enough to be driving at dawn in August, so we should be good. And I'm driving one of the original run RWD Models 3, so my range shouldn't be an issue. The biggest problem for me is that I wanted to try to visit the south rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison on the way east, and now I'd have to backtrack to Montrose if I kept that plan. Hmm.If you have a car with at least 200 RM of range I suggest charging extra and taking the longer detour. One disadvantage of weekend travel, especially when getting closer to the Front Range (Denver metro area) is that roads are more crowded. I prefer weekday travel between Poncha Springs and Denver/Colorado Springs.
One caution: try to avoid travel at dusk and dawn between Gunnison and the base of Monarch Pass, due to the danger of deer. This is true for many of the secondary highways in the Colorado mountains. The problem isn't seeing the deer, it is being blinded by headlights of oncoming cars so that seeing deer on the road is impossible. Try to travel on two lane mountain roads during the daytime, if possible. Not that deer on the road is not a familiar problem to anyone from the Midwest — at least we have lots of pumas here to keep our deer population under control!
Gunnison has a pair of level 2 EVSEs at the municipal building that you can use for a few hours if you will be staying in the area overnight: 201 West Virginia Ave.I appreciate that advice. I'll be spending a night in Gunnison as I'm heading east, and there's no way I can get my wife up early enough to be driving at dawn in August, so we should be good. And I'm driving one of the original run RWD Models 3, so my range shouldn't be an issue. The biggest problem for me is that I wanted to try to visit the south rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison on the way east, and now I'd have to backtrack to Montrose if I kept that plan. Hmm.
Whichever option you choose, I think that visiting Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park should be a high priority. The canyon is so deep (1800+ feet) and steep (less than a thousand feet across at the top at the narrows) that it is very difficult to photograph well. These are a few of my many attempts:
As it happens, I have a river cobble of gniess in my front door rock collection (from the Westcliffe area, not Black Canyon). Schist and pegmatite are the other major minerals that make up the Black Canyon walls. The combination of hard rocks and a big elevation drop caused the Gunnison River to carve the canyon that is so steep and deep.Gneiss pics! (Geology joke, sorry I couldn't resist.) I hope to get there someday soon!