The Colorado Scenic Byway, AKA the Alpine Loop is an off road trail between the towns of Silverton, Lake City, and Ouray in Colorado. The loop includes Engineer Pass and Cinnamon Pass with many other trails and offshoots in between like Poughkeepsie Gulch, Corkscrew, Animas Forks, and others. There are many sights along the way including fantastic views, sheer cliffs, an abundance of waterfalls, ice bridges, caves, wildflowers, abandoned mines, old towns, and more. 👉Get Your Free Olight Flashlight Here: bit.ly/2PJgCMT 👈 Just click the Facebook or Email share button to complete the sharing, and it will be automatically added to your cart! Olight Flash Sale Details: 1.Flash sale date: 8:00 PM August 13th -11:59 PM August 17th EDT, UP to 45% OFF and at least 20% off site wide, Except X9R FREE Gift: i1R II Rechargeable Keychain Light (Worth $19.95) (Need to click the Facebook or Email share button to complete the sharing, and it will be automatically added to your cart and its color will be randomly selected) During 8:00 PM August 13th -11:59 PM August 14th EDT 1) Baldr Mini Black or Desert Tan, 35% off (MAP: $129.95; Sales price:$84.47) Bundle:Baldr Mini Black + i5T Purple, 45% off (MAP: $162.90; Sales price:$89.60) Bundle:Baldr Mini Desert Tan + i5T OD Green, 45% off (MAP: $162.90; Sales price:$89.60) 2) Baldr Mini Gunmetal Grey(Limited Edition), 35% off (MAP: $139.95; Sales price:$90.97) Bundle:Baldr Mini Gunmetal Grey+ O Pen 2 Black, 45% off (MAP: $189.90; Sales price:$104.45) Bundle:Baldr Mini Gunmetal Grey+ i5T Purple, 45% off(MAP: $172.90; Sales price:$95.10) During 8:00 PM August 13th -11:59 PM August 15th EDT 3) M2R Pro Gunmetal Grey(Limited Edition), 30% off (MAP: $119.95; Sales price:$83.97) Bundle:M2R Pro Gunmetal Grey + i3T ODG, 40% off (MAP: $141.90; Sales price:$85.14) Bundle:M2R Pro Gunmetal Grey + M2R Pro PE, 40% off (MAP: $239.90; Sales price:$143.94) During 8:00 PM August 13th -11:59 PM August 16th EDT 4) S1R Baton II Orange(Limited Edition), 30% off (MAP: $69.95; Sales price:$48.97) Bundle:S1R Baton II Orange + i3T ODG, 40% off (MAP: $91.90; Sales price:$55.14) During 8:00 PM August 13th -11:59 PM August 17th EDT 5) Warrior X Turbo Black, 30% off (MAP: $139.95; Sales price:$97.97) Bundle:Warrior X Turbo Black + i5T Purple, 40% off (MAP: $172.90; Sales price:$103.74) 6)Warrior X Turbo Gunmetal Grey(Limited Edition), 30% off (MAP: $149.95; Sales price: $104.97) Bundle:Warrior X Turbo Gunmetal Grey + O Pen 2 Black, 40% off (MAP: $199.90; Sales prices: $119.94) 2. MEGA PACK, 40% off 3. Free Tiers: 1) Over $129 get a FREE I3T OD Green (MAP: $21.95) 2) Over $199 get a FREE M1T Plus Desert Tan (MAP: $59.95) 3) Over $299 get a FREE Seeker 2 (MAP: $109.95) 4) Over $399 get a FREE Warrior X (MAP: $129.95) 5) Over $599 get a FREE Javelot Pro Black(MAP: $199.95) Coupon Codes will not work During the Sale If a BleepinJeep video has ever helped you consider returning the favor by: • Supporting us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/bleepinjeep • Becoming a Member here on KZfaq: bit.ly/2wGeSec • See what we recommend on Amazon here: amzn.to/2kc6Syn • Buying a T-Shirt Here: www.bleepinjeep.com/store • Or Just leaving a kind comment on FB here: facebook.com/BleepinJeep *This product is meant for entertainment purposes only. Your mileage may vary. Do not try this at home. Void where prohibited. Some assembly required. For off-road use only. Slippery when wet. Batteries not included. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle, heavy equipment, cherokee XJ, wrangler TJ, wrangler JK, or any Jeep vehicle, especially the newer Fiat ones. How-to videos may be too intense for some viewers and children under 30 years of age. Please remain seated until the 4x4 ride has come to a complete stop. Studies have shown viewing these videos causes increased cancer risks in laboratory test people. I am not a professional, I have no training, I'm not even particularly good at horse whispering. Don't believe everything that you know. Please keep your hands in the vehicle at all times. Do not tap on glass. Do not eat anything that has been on the floor for more than 3 days. Keep your hands to yourself. Not to be taken internally. Reproduction strictly prohibited. Driver does not carry cash. Objects in Bleepinjeep mirrors may be farther than they appear.*

This comment is just a WEE bit late, so likely won’t be read. But welcome to Colorado, the state in which I (and my wife and kids) were born and raised! Not many can say this very thing. Be safe, and enjoy your visit and plan to get home safely…..

At the very end of the video when you said "Cherokee, Cherokee, not a Cherokee." I was dying. So good.

My grandparents had a cattle ranch 18 miles west of Creede (if you take 149 east out of Lake City). We had a Willys wagon and explored all around Creede, Lake City, and in the San Juans. I don't think the Alpine Loop was there then or we would have made the trip. We moved to Steamboat Springs and continued our Colorado explorations. My dad's passing in 1968 put an end to our Jeep days. The Alpine Loop is on my bucket list. Thank you for sharing.

My home town!! But it’s pronounced (YURRAY) lol love that place thanks for the view! Cheers! 🇺🇸🤘😷👍🇺🇸

Said it the other day absolutely beautiful another great video this is what life is all about

I lived in Durango and Silverton before they got invaded. This made me homesick.

My grandfather grew up in Lake City and I’ve been over the Alpine Loop many times. It was a much rougher trail when I was a kid in the 80’s! I miss it, so thanks for a drive through memory lane.

I could sleep so soundly beside that waterfall

Hey Matt, The trail you exited on was Engineer Pass, which is the more rugged terrain part of the loop. Poughkeepsie Gulch is an offshoot of Engineer Pass, and is even more difficult/technical for stock Jeeps, and there are signs that point that out before you reach the "Wall" which is the hardest part of the trail. It would be a great place for your Scorpion Crawler to have some fun on!

Add majorum and sprinkle with shredded swiss and BAM! You just took that ham skillet to the next level. Nice video. Wife and I going soon.

Beautiful area. A night in Lake City is worth the time. The cafes are fun and the food is great.

I miss Colorado so much 😣

Great videos Matt and Hope. You seem so relaxed and confident on those frightening and narrow shelf roads. Amazing! Thanks!

That kind of scenery is why I've never though about leaving Colorado in all my 53 years.

Imagine if we had a unique compound that could melt the ice after a certain depth is measured by a stick and camera, so the more active areas could be managed better... (something that won't hurt the land/animals... maybe a giant dirt blower from the top with a conveyor belt to bring the dirt upwards.... and using multiple fresnel lenses to heat up the area...) who knows... lol Love the adventures and all the ha-ha moments... lol Towards more Blissful moments~!!!

Wish I had known you were going to be out here. Would love to have met you and thanked you for all of the great videos on the XJ's that helped me with my build.

Matt thank for you all the great content over the years.

Love me some Alpine loop. That portion of Colorado is amazing.

Very beautiful there, nice drive

Super cool video watching for tips on our next Trip

This is, by far, the best video I've seen done on the Alpine Loop. I'm up there every summer, and own a place in Lake City. I don't think anyone else has captured the loop quite as well, but there's more to do than you think In Lake City! The ice and debris bridges you saw were the result of historic levels of snow pack. There were many mountain faces that avalanched that winter that had not had an avalanche in living memory. FEMA got involved because, if one of those ice dams had collapsed, then it could have flooded lake City and taken out a third of the town proper! It's back to normal now, except for the remaining downed trees on the mountainsides.

Great video! I lived in Lake City for fifteen years, so it's great to see you exploring my old stomping grounds! My '76 Wagoneer and '91 XJ went over all those roads numerous times, along with many of the less-known trails in the area that are more difficult. But the Alpine Loop is certainly the most popular, mostly for their scenic value. Two years ago there were unprecedented avalanche conditions that led to those huge slides paths you saw.

Beautiful does not begin to describe the views!

Have to put that route on my bucket list. Great country. Thanks for sharing!

My family &I just did the loop & Poughkeepsie gulch last weekend the views are awesome 👍👍

Very nice scenery

I ran Engineer pass in the late 90s from Lake City to where we camped north of Silverton for a vacation. Looks like they've improved it some since I did it, there were some spots that were a bit of work for my Trailduster on 31s.

The week after you posted this video, my neighbor and I drove over from Alamosa with my '98 XJ and drove the loop. I was over there 6 years ago to climb Mt. Uncompahgre, a 14er. What a great drive! We really enjoyed the ride, didn't have as much rain as y'all got. Would like to have known you were going to be here, might have had a meet and greet. Really enjoy your videos, lots of good info for Jeepers.

Man wish you did a meet-and-greet here in Colorado! Be nice to meet the man that got me into XJ's🤙

Absolutely beautiful country!!!

Did it a couple of years ago and doing it again in September. Amazing out there

Thanks for taking us along...

Looks like it was a fun trip. Very pretty.

Great Video! Nice to be out just like that. Peaceful, open and beauty. Everything just Fresh, Blessed and feeling the Freedom

Such an amazing place. I was just there 3 weeks ago myself and had a blast.

Just did the Alpine loop, imogene, and black bear last week! So many great views.

Thanks for sharing...really enjoy the banter between you two & your back trail videos!!

You look like a true Coloradan with that windshield crack! The alpine loop is a great scenic drive. You are in the prettiest part of the state in Ouray / Silverton.

I've lived here for a year, must run this trip!!!

Hey Matt , I really enjoy the trail riding and camping videos that you and your wife made. Great scenery. Thank you very much.

Over the past nearly fifty years I've been to CO many times, and had heard about the Alpine Loop, but never experienced it. Thanks for the ride-a-long. First time I traveled from Durango through Silverton and up to Ouray was in 1977. I was twenty years old. There's a super easy trail you might try if you're out in CO again. It's Holy Cross City near the Homestake Reservoir. There's a group of four wheelers that go up after the first thaw each year, clean up any "trash" left by inconsiderate wheelers and make sure it's open for the season. It's short and easy, as I said, but a fun little ride. My cousins and I hiked it and ended up following a group of four wheelers, mostly in jeeps, up the trail to the City, which is a ghost town. We hiked on up to Cleveland Lake, camped there a few nights and did some fishing. Fun time. There's also a trail from Crested Butte over to Marble, CO. I made it up to Schofield Pass in a rental car, but not down into Marble. I'd heard from the Pass into Marble was very challenging and that possibly it was closed by the company mining the area. Not sure. It might be another one to check out some time. If you try it, ask about it with locals in Crested Butte first. Looks like you guys avoided altitude sickness. Good for you. It can be no fun. I may not live too far from you; Louisville, KY. If so I'd love to come visit some time and maybe check out any projects you'd be working on. Hoping to finish up my 1960 Willys wagon this year. It's originally a CO vehicle.

Very cool thanks for letting us come along 👍😀

Wow fantastic trail. Very scenic. Glad to see your wife on an adventure with you.

What a gorgeous trip. Seems like you're liking the wrangler more than you expected you would!

Matt this was a nice change of pace, and great to see you Hope on the channel. Would love to see more of this kind of stuff.

Awesome job, and its nice to see miss bleeping out whit you! Hope yall had a blast.

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Happy anniversary!

I enjoy your videos looking forward to visiting the beautiful state of Colorado again this August.

Hey Matt, nice to see ya'all out in the area I live in. ENJOY!

Beautiful!

Beautiful location and Jeep JL Perfect combination 👌

We just missed y'all! We was there not too long before you. We drove Engineer, Mineral Creek (the rocky trail you exited to Ouray), Poughkeepsie Gulch, Hurrah Pass, Red Mountain, Ophir, and a few others. We drove over to Moab afterwards to wheel!

Love this video! Good to see you guys out there! We did our first overland trip this year from Chatt Tn to Sedona Az. 12 day of camping and pure fun. You can try to describe what you see all day to people but some things you just have to see for yourself.

It’s a nice trip and I will be doing it next year

Just got back from there! Absolutely beautiful country! Our trip was very dry and dusty.

Cool. I enjoy your channel. Glad to see you made it to Colorado. Came here 20 years ago and never left. Have fun!

The"O" is silent (pronounced U-ray). Looks like a nice laid-back day where you can just enjoy the beauty.

Pretty awesome man. Love your narration.

Love the lights. You have a great channel. Very informative.

We spent 3 weeks exploring lots of roads around that region and had tons of fun. I would enjoy another trip there to see places we didnt go and ride the Silverton Railway. It was booked up for weeks and we didn't get to experience the train ride up the mountain.

Looks like a great trip

Thats crazy, we were just there Tuesday thru Thursday this week...

Beautiful ride! Thanks for taking us along. Too bad the rain put a little damper on things.

Man I hope I can make a trip out to Colorado. That looks awesome!

Great info Matt, always quality stuff.

Thank you and your wife for graciously sharing. A slight departure from rock crawling, but a good one. Please continue. All the best, R

That’s on my bucket list

Great video. I'm headed to Ouray tomorrow for 5 days. This is my 15th year of being there.

Great scenery 👌

I’ve been on a few trips where all you see is clouds like your view from the Engineers Pass sign! Great video and I need to go back and check out the build on this rig!

Thanks for the great vids. My wife and I enjoy your adventures as we are not able to.

Looks Epic!

We love the Silverton/Lake City/Ouray/Telluride area. We’ve drive almost every road except Black Bear Pass. We usually stay in Ouray at Riverside Inn. That house you saw for sale has been for sale for several years. 5 acres 2 bed 900+sq ft only $700K.

I used to make that drive fairly often as a teenager. I never realized back then that it was a popular off road trip. I was in a Ram 2500. Lol

Nice ride TY

Nice ! Welcome to CO! Looks like you had an awesome trip :)

Thanks for sharing. The view is awesome. I'll probably never get to see that in person so thanks

Awesome views, keep up the great content.

Views on views!

the loop this year has been really busy. I have live near silverton and camp a lot up there in my tacoma.

Awesome 👌

In the mid 2000s, I took a little Nissan Sentra about 3/4ths the way up Cinnamon Pass from Lake City before finally hitting some rocks that were not going to go cooperate with that car's clearance. I was, however, surprised I did get as far as I did in that little car.

Freaking awesome!!!!!

I loved seeing you with your wife I'm assuming but anyways it was 💯 AWESOME TO SEE I would love to to see that More!!! Amazing video of course too and the 1st time we have EVER SEEN that area so Thank You for sharing this with with us all!!! 😎💯

While I've always enjoyed your informative how to videos, this trip is one is my favorite videos of yours. Thank you, Chris

I've been subscribed to you for a bit now. i really like this video. little different than the scorpion wheeling videos. keep them coming.

Nice place !

Next time you are in Colorado, look into running Red Cone. Scenic with challenges getting there but nothing to crazy. Happy to show ya around.

Welcome to Colorado! Thanks for “stay’n on the trails” We pronounce Ouray as your- Aaaaa. Highly recommend imogene Pass from Ouray to Telluride (or visa versa) Wife will probably not like Black Bear Pass n it’s shelf road and switchbacks.

I've only watched a few videos so far but I love your channel you gotta give some warning next time you're in Colorado so some of us can meet an awesome guy that's given many ideas and helped through many repairs!

Great video!

The part you mention as poughkeepsie gulch is actually mineral creek trail, the gulch connects from engineer to cinnamon

Looks like a fishy creek, I think I'd have to try. Beautiful area.

Tin cup pass is awesome as well

Ouray, pronounced "You're-A"... no O (35 yr second home) :) Beautiful country... I have to do the loop soon.

thats an impressive splinter runnin down that shield!!🤣 I got a buddy with a 15 JK that replaced his 4 or 5 times by now lol

Did Imogene pass about a month ago, got snowed on when we got to the top

Have Ben To Lake City And Fished That Stream That Went Buy That dam There Was An Out House Behind It Was A Drop Off Good Fishing In The Tidle Pools .AS the Stream Was About 6 Feet Wide This Was Back In The 90..

Oh man, you guys found a killer campsite. And YES... there are indeed bears up in that area. Looks like you had a great trip! As someone else mentioned you finished your journey on Mineral Creek.