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Posted By: RWSchaffer Info: My 2WD hatchback made it to the trailhead without difficulty. The road is mostly dry. Significant stretches of packed snow remain, much of it in the first two miles which aren’t melting as fast. Driving in late at night, the snow stretches were frozen solid. Driving out mid-afternoon, most snow stretches were sloppy and melting fast. The road closes to wheeled vehicles in just over two weeks (pictured). |
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Posted By: E_A_Marcus_949 Info: Straight forward road pretty much any car can make with decent driving. Washboarding and a few small obstacles that can mostly be avoided or carefully driven around if in a lower-clearance car. Parking lot was full and packed at 3:30am on Sunday (holiday weekend) - parked along the road - even more full with plenty of cars lining the road early afternoon. |
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Posted By: Green_river Info: Bad weather, this road can be a 2, but on a dry day, it’s easily a 1. A Tesla Model S made it up right behind me. |
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Posted By: beau730 Info: The road is most definitely passable for a 2WD vehicle. A few small spots to slow down and maneuver around, but nothing too low. Smoke wasnt terrible either. |
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Posted By: bsargeant1 Info: HOLY CROSS ROAD CLOSURE Message from the US Forest Service: MINTURN, Colo. The Forest Service will close the Tigiwon Road (FSR 707) south of Minturn from Monday, Aug. 17 to Wednesday, Aug. 19 for annual road grading and maintenance. The Forest Service is temporarily closing the road this year to ensure the heavy maintenance can be accomplished safely by ensuring the large grader equipment, dump trucks and loaders are not interacting with the high volume of forest visitors the area is seeing this year. In past years this maintenance could be accomplished without a temporary closure during mid-week, when visitation was relatively low. This year the road has been busy all week long. Many of our visitors are parking along the side of this very narrow road to access the Cross Creek and Half Moon trailheads, said District Ranger Leanne Veldhuis. It would not be responsible for the heavy road equipment to try to navigate between the parked vehicles to get this important road work accomplished. We thank our visitors for understanding. The road will close beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday to ensure crews can begin early that morning. The gate will be closed at the Forest boundary. The land before the gate is privately owned and not available for parking. There are a number of great alternate hikes on the Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District visitors can use during this short, three-day closure, Veldhuis said. Visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/whiteriver for up to date information or call the Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District office at 970-827-5715. |
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Posted By: Chicago Transplant Info: ALERT: Tigiwon road will be closed Monday 8/17/20 through Wednesday 8/19/20 for road grading. Should be nice and smooth for all the low clearance vehicles when it reopens ;) FS Office for questions: 970-827-5715 More info: https://www.vaildaily.com/news/tigiwon-road-near-minturn-will-close-from-aug-17-19/ |
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Posted By: NathanLizard Info: No issues getting my Honda Civic to the trailhead today. There were a couple of places on the road up that required me to be strategic with my choice of path but it wasn’t bad at all. Take it slow, make smart choices and you will be fine. |
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Posted By: Thmpsn_ Info: Road to the trailhead is super easy to navigate with any vehicle. Took my 2006 Mazda 3 car to the trailhead with no remote issues. There was a 2018 Corvette ZO6 sports car at the trailhead....super low clearance vehicle. Literally any car can make it here regardless of clearance. Just go slow at the couple small rockier spots. This trailhead easily should stay a 1 on the scale. Any easier and it would be paved. |
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Posted By: mtgoatmike Info: The road to the trailhead was totally doable in my 2wd, low clearance, 2000 Honda Accord. Had to do a lot of "tactical" driving. Driving up the road around 2am, there were some large potholes just below Tigiwon cabin on a few of the switchbacks. After the Tigiwon cabin the road got really muddy on the switchbacks; it was like driving on slushy snow. Driving down from the trailhead the road conditions had deteriorated with the morning’s traffic coming up the road. The muddy switchbacks had some nice ruts that were unavoidable. Overall, the road should be rated, at minimum, a "2". Play it safe/smart, and you’ll find your low clearance adventure vehicle at the trailhead in no time. |
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Posted By: Dignus Info: Like many people have said, this ought to be rated a 2, perhaps even 3. Road is even bumpier than when I drove up last fall. |
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Posted By: waelouf Info: Definitely should be ranked at least 2, still doable with a low-clearance car (AWD recommended) but with bit of struggle |
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Posted By: rudi32 Info: Road should definitely be ranked a 2. Not terrible, but some lower clearance 2wd vehicles would struggle in a few spots. |
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Posted By: CaptCO Info: This road needs to be ranked a 2, not 1. Hundreds of potholes will make getting up in a passenger car very unenjoyable. Luckily I had no issues with ol trusty F150 |
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Posted By: Clint the climber Info: The road is open all the way to the trailhead and is passable in a low clearance 2wd vehicle. |
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Posted By: cottonmountaineering Info: Can ride bicycle until just before ranger station, upper road melting fast |
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Posted By: drhunter1986 Info: Clear all the way to Half Moon TH! 4x4 and good tires recommended though. |
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Posted By: amymaylee94 Info: Couple of rough spots on the road that you have to drive slowly on with a 2wd. I hit the bottom of my car a few times because I wasn’t careful. Otherwise, passable for any vehicle with some careful driving. |
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Posted By: madmattd Info: As has been discussed, this road is easily 2WD passable. I made it up without any issues in a basic station wagon, 5-6" of clearance. Other than a couple badly rutted spots where low-clearance vehicles just need to slow and pick a line, it’s your typical dirt road with some minor washboarding and small rocks at times but nothing to worry about. Several 2WD sedans at the trailhead (Impreza, Corolla, etc). If anything I think the road is overall better than around this time last year. Lot was full but not exploding today, only a few vehicles parked along the road near the TH. There was some sort of large gathering at the Community House Saturday night, I suspect this was why the dispersed camping was largely occupied but we still found a spot up high. |
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Posted By: drchele Info: Agree-- I suspect the TH update by CaptCO dated 9/1/2019 is likely intended for the North Halfmoon Creek TH (a la Massive). I was just up The Half Moon (Tigiwon, aka FR 707) road to the TH for Holy Cross on 9/13/2019. Was able to drive 20-30 mph *almost* the entire way. With a full bladder. It is most certainly passable in a 2WD passenger car. I could’ve eaten a sandwich while driving this thing. Never fear. |
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Posted By: mattpick Info: Road is dry and a bit bumpy, but definite manageable. Lots of cars Saturday at 1pm when we arrived, but were able to get a spot by the trailhead. |
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Posted By: piopti Info: Road is suitable for 2WD vehicles. A little rough in places, mid-clearance vehicle may be desired in a few spots. |
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Posted By: TravelingWilbury Info: According to the latest forest service update, as of 6/28 tigiwon road is open. It says "one snow drift beyond community house" so I’m not sure if you can make it all the way to the TH, but I plan to give it a shot this weekend. https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd542981.pdf |
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Posted By: TieDye Info: Just got off the phone with the Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District office - the Tigiwon Road will not be opening today as scheduled due to too much snow still up there. Not a surprise but just wanted to get the information posted. They will reassess next weekend to hopefully have it open by July 4th. |
