Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway (formerly Mount Evans) Guide

The road up Mount Blue Sky — renamed from Mount Evans in 2023 to honor the Cheyenne and Arapaho — climbs 28 miles to 14,130 feet, which makes it the highest paved road in North America, and you can do the whole thing in a Honda Civic. It closed after 2024 for major repairs and reopened May 22, 2026, so the switchbacks are freshly patched. You leave the pines behind, grind up through the tundra past ancient bristlecone pines twisted into 1,600-year-old sculptures, and end on a summit where mountain goats and bighorn sheep clatter across the parking lot and the air holds about 60% of the oxygen you’re used to. From the top you can see a hundred miles across the Front Range. It is the single laziest way to stand at 14,000 feet in America — and that’s a compliment.