15-40 Denver & Beyond: I-25 South, I-70 East
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- This video has three stages, I-25 South through the city, I-70 East leaving the city and then a short stretch of I-70 East leaving Limon in the early evening. All music, car and Equipment FAQ's are in the closing credits.
I just love Interstate Highways. Thanks for the proposal Ike.
Same! I love interstates! It gives me the feeling of adventure right away. Just the thought that the tarmac I am on goes for sometimes thousands of miles across the nation can give me goosebumps. I live really close to I-20, and sometimes I just stop and look at the cars and trucks on it and just think I wonder where they're all going. One day I'll get on the interstate and head west for good! Cheers
@@EagleLogic same, I always feel a certain way about interstate travel. That sense of adventure is unmatched
Looks like the perfect day to go storm chasing! I really enjoyed the video, perfect lighting of the road with the storm clouds and everything!
+Mountain West Highways Thank you!
Song: “Feel the RAAAAAAAIN”
Rain: *Falls*
Jim: “So much for that”
Also Jim: “And the rain was worse”
Thank you!
The beginning of the third song paired w that scene was perfect
Thank you very much!
Ikr
Ikr means I know right so I’m just telling every person that doesn’t know it ikr means I know right.
Yes my favorite song is wildfire! The 1st song was pretty good too!
I absolutely love Denver and plan to move there after college. Greetings from St. Louis, MO.
Really nice video, specially the part east of Limon. I lived in Denver for 6 months back in 1997 to study English. Only good memories of all those days. Kind regards.
I have driven I-70 before and there really isn't anything between Denver and Topeka, but it sure is a beautiful drive!
+Dustin Ammerman It sure looks like a beautiful drive! I can't wait to do it someday! :)
+Dustin Ammerman I'll be making that drive from Manhattan (Kansas, that is) next month! Haven't been that way in 8 years. And you're exactly correct! There really isn't anything between Denver and Topeka (other than Hays, Salina, Junction City and, 9 miles north, Manhattan). Just flat prairie and hills.
I have done it there is nothing special.
I really need to try and drive in the heart ❤️ of the tornado 🌪 land Kansas!
Nice video! On Christmas day of 2014, I drove from Denver and stopped at Topeka. Walmart was closed that day, and I have to put up with a bit hungry on that night. On the second day early morning, I rushed to Walmart to buy food. Walmart was 100 meters away from that motel. Nice rememberance!
Thanks for watching!
Musical choice as well as the 3rd part of this video, keep me coming back every so often. I'd love to drive that drive from Limon onwards...
Thank you very much!
Cool. Hard to believe at some points WITHIN A MAJOR METRO a moderately trafficked freeway is converted to a super 2 even for construction. The T Rex project and I 25 are pretty swank too. Also, thanks for showing off the rural part of I 70 that I have been on, lol. I love the reveal of the Rockies from the east in that area.
+InterstateJD Thanks!
Heading to Denver in July, Jim, and I hope everyone appreciates your GIFT of making these videos truly special!!!
Thank you very much for that, hope you enjoy a great trip and be safe.
The clouds below Denver look so beautiful
Wow! I didn't know that the plains in Eastern Colorado are really that green. When I looked at Google Earth, the plains just looked very dry.
They are only green in the springtime, during the summer everything drys out
No I live in Colorado and the plains are green in spring and summer they are yellow in winter and fall
I think Google Earth should have upgraded their Earth so people wouldn't get confused with that.
And freakishly flat without trees!!!!!
Fantastic landscapes and lights !
Excited to go there in a few days !
And yes, metropolitan Denver effectively ends at E-470. By the way, a friend of mine who worked for CDOT helped with the engineering for the I-70/I-25 interchange and some of the bridges near the stadium.
+Tom S. Good to know, thanks.
The development is starting to spread a bit east of E-470 now.
Good trip with nice music! thank for this. have a nice day
+על גלגלים On Wheels Thank you!
Wow! Once again you have captured my heart with the Colorado compilations! THIS time I 'will' be subscribing! Between my early days, right after getting out of the Air Force and doing my stint in the trucking industry for 38 years, you have brought to me so many memories! Thank you! I can't wait to see all of the other places you're going to take me while watching your videos! Keep 'em coming!
Travel safe, be happy, and have a blessed day!
(6/19/2018 Tuesday 8:08pmCST Houston, Texas)
Thank you very much, the video I made of I-70 East through the Rockies got taken down, I am working on a remixed version of it coming soon.
You sir are very kind and thank you for your service.
WILDFIRE !!!!!!!!!!!! I love this channel so much for that song! I love this so much!!!! I slow danced with my ex drunk all night long under a crescent moon to Wildfire ... beauty in disguise. Amen
Awesome!!! thank you for sharing that and for watching, glad you enjoyed the video.
I love the song Wildfire!!! One of my all time faves! When I was working, I had business on a tiny town in west Kansas (Lenora) Landscape looked identical
Those clouds are badass, just saying. I'd have loved to been out there on some high ground chasing. This just made my top 10 of all your videos!
+Drive On! Thanks, glad you liked it!
Although freeways sometimes look monotonous, this was an excellent video!
The dark clouds add a mysterious tone to the atmosphere!
+CostasAthan's Onboard Videos Thank you!
Such awesome video and music....❤❤ Wildfire was perfect for that stretch of highway and when the sun set....wow!!💜💙💜
Much appreciated, thank you!
Amazing man, I love your videos, the quality is impeccable :D
+lMatheusx Thank you very much!
From Pittsburgh (I-70), currently living in Colorado Springs. When my wife and I first traveled west on I-70 from Pittsburgh to Colorado, my favorite segment of the trip was Topeka, KS to Limon, CO. The terrain in central Kansas is something special, i.m.o. Also love Limon to Kanorado. Sadly, I've only ever made the trip in early winter and late winter, when everything is dead and brown. I was delighted to see this bonus footage, and shocked at how green it all is! I'll be making this venture again in just a couple weeks. It won't look anything like this :(
Thank you for the comment and for watching, glad you liked the "bonus footage".
Yes, brown in the winter. However, the trade-off in the summer months are the bugs. Every gas stop going across the Midwest has a portion of time devoted to scrubbing the insect remains off the windshield. All those crops, you know.
Limon took a bad hit from a tornado sometime in the late 80s. Right through the town, including the area at the start of the bonus footage.
The magnificent light conditions. This is the reason for me at least you have filmed the Stage 3 (I-70 East).
+dr1ve0rd1e Thanks, that and just to give people who have never been there a taste of what it's like on that side of the state.
I especially loved the final drive and musical selection.
+edgexxi Thank you!
Very nice video, Jim, especially the third stage. Last year we drove from Ohio to Wyoming and I actually enjoyed driving through a lot of "nothing" accross the central west. One evening we left Huron, SD after dinner to drive to our motel stop in Chamberlain. The kids fell asleep in the backseat and my wife and I watched the sun set and thunderstorms form on the horizon. A very nice evening drive.
+Rich Dodson Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Rain in Denver is so nice. So relaxed.
I came for the epic drive and awesome tunes and
Stayed for the Bonus Cruise!
Buya!
+Khu NoPie LOL, Thanks!
Tbh when I think of freeway's, I think of that last part. But an absolutely lovely video with great music to go with it.
+Toxic Tank (toxic tank 258) Thank you very much!
I lived in Deer Trail and Sterling, Colorado for a couple of years. I love the Great Plains. Thanks for your video!
Thank you for watching!
I glad U r here dude..
I really enjoy your driving with backsound that u played.. 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for watching!
Nice working with what you had. Those skies were awesome. I wish the rain never came.
+TheSolarcatcher You and me both, but thanks, you know how that goes sometimes when you're out filming.
The rainstorm must've been a pain. But I felt that way too because with all that intense downpour, I can not see a thing. One day, I will earn my driver's license so I can take me wherever I want to go, such as NYC or my dream city of Los Angeles. I'm currently studying my driver's license handbook. That sunset must be serene in the plain landform.
great scenery and song
Fantastic footage! Strange, I feel a little sadness leaving the Denver area and the Rockies just watching the video, seeing the elevation gradually decline as the miles pass. In 1992 I took a road trip with my dad, getting my sister's stuff from PA and her car from NC and then heading back to California. We were on 70 from St. Louis (actually E.St Louis) to its end in Cove Fort,UT. I enjoyed the stretch in Missouri, the rolling hills made for a fun drive in a rental truck. I enjoyed Kansas like a plantar wart on the foot. Eastern Colorado excited me because I knew Denver was coming, even though the first 180 or so miles are like Kansas.
+Bryan Moore Thank you, funny you should say that, I felt that very sadness at the end of the last video when I came down from the Rockies and saw the Great Plains laid out in the distance.
Thank you so much for sharing your compilation of Denver and surrounding area Freewayjim! The interstates there are in amazing condition. Your bonus feature was my favorite. It was so incredibly relaxing with the perfect song and the wide-open plains. I just loved it!!! :)
+Kevin Tennert Thank you for the comment, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Use to drive this almost every month going home to Kansas. loved that area around Limon just rolling green hills for miles and miles. Best view is going west actually and just on the outside of Limon past that Flying J and you can see for a good long ways this area I believe is called the Palmer Divide. Anyways hope you enjoyed the scenery, went to college in Goodland, Hope you ate supper at El Reynoldos, little Mexican fast food place some of the best burritos ever, pretty popular with the college kids. Unfortunately there isn't much to state till about russell.
+Adow5115 Thanks, no I ate at McDs, had a craving :) I have never driven this westbound, maybe someday.
Once again great video Jim, I am glad you included the bonus footage of Limon as it shows people who are not familiar with Colorado that half the state is in the plains and not all mountains as too many think it is.
+Trebor S Thank you!
Hola, gracias por sus videos, pues combina muy bien las imágenes, música, y las buenos datos. Muy buen trabajo.
Last June is a month I want to forget about. we got record amounts of rain Denver. This area doesn't get a lot of rain and is no where near as green as you got to see. None the less great video and good thing traffic wasn't bad. Jim you may as well just make the move to Colorado lol. Only downside is the cost if living.
+DJR5280 LOL, Thanks, yes I could think of worse places to live.
I remember being in Hays, Kansas on a lunch break from my travel back east and I saw gates like the ones in Denver at the entrance ramps. This video is the first time I saw the ones in Denver though.
You do good work Jim , excellent video
i love all those giant bridges
Really enjoyed the second and third stages of the video. The stretch of I-70 from Denver to Topeka is very underrated in my opinion. It does have it's flat parts, but there are quite a few hilly areas along the way. The landscape transitions from treeless plains to parkland to forest along the way. Great as always :)
+highway2heaven91 Thank you, yes there were some hilly areas east of Salina, it was overcast and on and off rain for my of my drive through there.
Loving how just before the second leg of your journey begins it started con la pioggia!! ^__^ And this song writer has it right, rain on the face can feel so refreshing/sweet (it all depends). I loved the song so much I downloaded it to my phone and some others, I love the way he writes it is so down to earth and legit, so real though some of them are... maudlin which makes me hope that resolution came, though it's hard to know whose story it was when two (or more create a song which is kinda annoying -- in a sense). Love the piano on the 3rd leg of your journey. Wild fire song is nice also. ^^ Look forward to the next time you will upload some videos of your travels, you seem to drive so often?
Thank you for the comment and for watching. I took another cross country trip this past summer and have been uploading new videos every week since August (through December) so check out the new ones starting at Video 19-07 from St. Louis.
Cool storm! :)
that last part was amazing. ive driven many such awesome sunsets just like that one. they never cease to amaze me. and fill me with joy. thanks for the fond memories.
+d graham (mesquiteguy121) Awesome! thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Great video bud! I think it's really a pain to drive at 55 on those roads :D
Thank you
+Ayush A. I agree. Who even wants to drive 55mph on a 4+ Lane open Freeway?
Yeah, NOBODY is going the speed limit through Denver. If you're not going 65 in a 55 you're probably going to be flattened.
Keep up the good work! These trips are very interesting.
that was nice these are songs I haven't heard in years I always love your videos
+Shaunda Scott Thank you very much!
You always come up with the perfect soundtrack to go with the video. Fantastic job.
+Brian Owens Thanks, it's just a feel for it, glad you enjoyed the video.
Your camcorder really shined brightly in these clips...good job on avoiding the worst of that traffic on I-25, lol. Looks like you had better luck with the weather than I did through Kansas; I had to make a beeline from Wichita to the KS/CO border through the night, when the weather reports changed for the worse and they were calling for tornado watches. Nice song choices; enjoyed the tours.
+FreewayBrent Thank you...that must have been something, dodging storms like that. The weather in my case only took away I-225, not a big loss.
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Great video, I liked the part east of Limon, So you can just see how desolate it is out there
+Nash wayz Thank you, yes it is like that for a loooong way, just wanted to offer up a little taste of it.
Freewayjim+ love the music Hold on so butiful
Butiful lol
Sir, I am addicted to your channel waiting for next one, Awesome video 👌
great timing with the LRT at 2:24. Wow people are right, it looks just like Calgary :-D. Especially how when you go east from Denver, you get that short-grass treeless prairie. It has a certain character that is different from the prairies further east. I find that very relaxing to drive, especially in the early mornings. Good video!
+Trans Canada Phil Thank you very much!
IKR. I like to think of Calgary as 'Denver of Canada" because the Rockies are to the west of the city and flat plains to the east. Also, the skylines of both of those cities are mostly similar with a few different designs of buildings.
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I love me some denver and Colorado
Great Video!! I really liked seeing all of the grass lands toward the end of the video!
+Adam Lutes Thank you!
Great video ! The last part of the video with the landscape full of lawns is fantastic !
+verryandroid Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice ride through Denver and a great sound track to go with it- and perfect timing with Denver winning the Super Bowl- very nice ride! Always glad to see parts of highways I have been on in other states, so it is nice to see how different things can be!
+cjs121675 Thank you!
I'm very familiar with the Limon segment of your trip, and very pleased to see that someone finally paid a little attention to that stretch of 70 between Limon and Genoa.
I 70's one of those roads that seems monotonous at first, but after you get to know it, there's interesting aspects just about over it's entire length.
+BPM Productions of Colorado It was my first time on that road, it was more interesting than I suspected it would be, Kansas the next day? meh.
Thanks for another great ride, Jim, with good timing on having a Denver video. First time your soundtrack had an artist I never heard of (Ian Gomm). And, those prices at the Conoco at the beginning of Stage 3 are probably a buck less a gallon now.
+ca2fla Thanks, yep that's a one hit wonder by Ian Gomm, and the timing was a happy accident, the video was done by the time the season started.
Nice filming. The green fields after Lemon as the sun is setting are especially beautiful. Great catch.
+FlyHigh Thank you very much!
This reminds me of my trip east I took back in July. I re-uploaded I-70 through Denver yesterday.
La música y el paisaje del video adicional, tiene un aire de nostalgia. Muy bueno. Gracias por su trabajo.
+JOHN CERON Thank you!
Wow. It's very beautiful.
Ahh, always love seeing big, life blood, freeways in dense inner suburban/urban roads "in action" with the high volumes (with the light rail running parallel as a BIG bonus) and the pretty (yet ominous) clouds! Nice one! Real nice!!!
+Schwenda Productions Thank you very much!
Pretty sky!! These videos just get better and better!!😁
+rsdaddy141 Thank you very much.
Amen to 6:55 I've driven on I-70 East from Utah all the way to Indianapolis with one other driver and two hotel stops; one in "East Denver"(as I call the east side) and the other in Columbia, MO. We were coming back from Las Vegas, NV visiting relatives and enjoying the sights of that great tourist trap.
everytime you braked for traffic my heart stopped! I know you weren't going fast but it sure felt like it!
LOL, the sped up footage will do that :)
Thank you!🙏🔥
I miss Denver so much. I enjoyed the years I lived there, now I'm in nashville and just sort of tolerating it.
Last time I was on this stretch of I-70 I was 10. Im now 57.
On the very day that my son was born, I had to use Limon to dodge the scales on I 70 (long story). I was at the dock picking up a super heavy load of sunflower seeds in Goodland when I got the call that my wife was in labor... I told those guys to step it up, and as a result, I ended up with about 50% more than I was supposed to have (those bastards!). Long story short, I didn't make it home in time to be there when he came into the world, but I also didn't have to pay some huge fine for being way over the weight restriction. For that, I'm forever grateful for Limon, Colorado!
The last two songs examples of the "mellow rock" that was all over the radio in my collegiate years sometimes a little bit too much. That is why punk and new wave had to happen IMHO. I liked the flat farm territory east of Denver also. It is a part of Americana
+Edward Kollin Thanks for watching.
I love an empty highway. Great work, Jim... keep the videos coming. :-)
+JJNYCguy Thank you very much.
I love the dark clouds in this video. I can see that I-70 between Denver and Topeka is a nightmare to drive through. There are a lot of small towns that you can stop in to get gas for your car. However, I know that I-70 is still very boring. You might as well leave I-70 and go to Dodge City or Wichita. When you do arrive in Topeka, you'll start to see less plains. If you want to drive from Topeka to Kansas City in Kansas or Missouri, it'll only take you about a hour to drive through boring plains.
I rather like your annotations... There's always something to be learned.
Thank you, I appreciate that!
thanks for doing 8 days before my birthday
Again Thank you all at TH-cam for broadcasting this Great Video and making my day alot better now:) :)! Make it the Best in everything you do and Bless your Hearts too:) :) :).
FreewayJim does it again. Wonderful video! I loved the first and last segments the most. The last segment was so mellow. Makes me want to get out there this summer and drive that stretch. And you're right, I-70 between Topeka and Denver has to be the worst stretch of interstate I've ever seen. You never disappoint us. :-)
+Jolly Dayz Thank you very much for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it!
The American West is so amazing -- and you've captured it perfectly!
Thank you, I also find it amazing, can't get enough of it!
and "Wildfire" really goes well with those wide open spaces. Such nice rhythm from start to finish... I can't stop watching it :)
Glad you enjoy it, thank you!
LIMON!? I watch Control City Freak and he absolutely hates Limon for being a primary control city - so much that it has become a channel meme for Todd. Those storm shots were incredible. nice timelapse
Thank you!
what a sky
Ian Gomm? That was a good find. Nice ride. Wonderful sky that evening.
+JMV FRVA Yeah, you stoped in Kansas and then drove the next day all the way to Atlanta, correct? What a day you had.
+JMV FRVA Thanks, yes it played out nicely and I did make it all the way to Atlanta the next day.
That was manical Jim - you are a better man than I am.
+JMV FRVA LOL, my days of doing that are probably numbered.
+Freewayjim back, what'll be exactly 10 years this mid-late summer, was the very last time my parents drove from home (STL) to Florida! "Never again", they said!
Thank you
A couple summers while driving truck I was able to take my daughter along as a passenger. East of Limon about where you were filming I told my daughter to look in the rearview mirror and tell me what she couldn't see. She didn't know what I meant and I told her that there weren't any mountains. She agreed and told me the land looked flat. As we were heading east into Kansas I said wait it gets flatter. She didn't believe me until we actually got into Kansas. And as far as nothing between there and Topeka, I think you're right.
Wow. Denver sure has some traffic! Yikes! Glad you included a bit of the eastern side. I know there's "nothing" between Denver and Topeka, but it's something. :)
+ejud2001 Thanks, that traffic in Denver is mild compared to other cities.
+Freewayjim I'm from Boston. :)
+ejud2001 Your traffic is much worse!
Yes, Limon is nothing to write home about. On one trip, I found a motel in Colby which is just over the line in Kansas. Colby is like a metropolis in comparison!
Thanks!
I live in Illinois which has nasty cold winters and nauseating humid sticky summers yet I've always wanted to move to Colorado which has cold bi-polar weather. The mountain beauty is what's drawing me to this state not to mention Illinois property taxes.
The weather is great there even in the winter. But its insanely expensive and has now gone downhill after covid. I left because of some of the insanity post lockdown.
@@joshuakhaos4451 We are looking at the Western slopes in Grand Junction and Palisade but you are right the whole state has experienced serious housing price increases and it kills me for what $350k buys (or doesn't) you. A no basement slab home with no back yard. If there is one only positive thing I can say about Illinois is $350k buys a lot of house with a generous back yards and full basements but that's about the only positive for me because property taxes are among the highest.
man i just want sleep after this video wonderful..
+miguel santos Thanks!
Perfect timing of uploading a video of Denver after the broncos win the super bowl
+BabyBang17datruth Thanks, happy accident.
thank you.
+Dorothy Holbrook Thank you for watching!
I-70 East should be the American Autobahn at 8:18
Agreed
Same here
Superb. Stage 3 IS the best part!
+luvcarsgay Thank you! I was concerned as to how it would be received to be honest.
what in the blue hell did that truck run over at 11:07?? and great video! the golden sunset at that angle made for great colors, wish it would last longer. also i find it funny how the rain didn't start till the end of "sweet rain" XD
+Classles Jackass LOL, I think that was a dirt clod. I felt fortunate I got as much footage as I did before the rain started.
AWESOME video Sir! Would you be making one from say, Goodland KS., to Topeka, one day?
No, I don't do long-distance videos like that, thanks for watching.
As a former Kansas resident, You dont want that video trust me. There is quite literally nothing of interest until after Topeka. I live in Denver currently and absolutely despise driving I-70. Even going to my former city of Wichita. It would not make for a good video, Trust me.
@@joshuakhaos4451 Sir, I'm a lifelong Kansas resident (I live in Topeka), but I've heard how flat it is between Denver and here. I've never been to Denver. But it was a thought...seeing I-70 between here and where the gentleman had ceased filming in eastern Colorado.
@@joshuakhaos4451 Wichita is my birthplace. Lived in Derby most of my time in Kansas.
@@bovineman61 You sound like me.
Another great video. Question: When are you coming back to Atlanta? I really love those videos.
+Andy Townsend Thanks, I live in Atlanta, I'll probably do a few more this spring or summer.