Looking west from Lone Cone Pass Lone Cone Pass, elevation 11,029 feet. Named after the most prominent peak nearby, this road is well known to people who travel routinely between Norwood and Dolores when the snow is off. Assuming a Norwood beginning, one goes east on CO145 a couple miles to a paved road south. It's marked and I believe the sign says "Lone Cone Road" but perhaps I imagined that. It's all good 2wd road to the town of Dolores, about 60 miles. After a few miles the pavement gives way to gravel for 35 miles or so, then it's paved on to Dolores. Lone Cone Pass is on the unpaved portion. About midway, you pass Groundhog Reservoir. There are many sideroads on this route but I had no trouble following the main road without a map first time through. A couple side roads of note in the graveled section: one marked side road takes you past Dunton, a private resort town. Initially, it's a lesser road but I've ridden it on a DL650 V-Strom. Another marked side road, a good gravel road, takes you westward to Disappointment Valley. As you near the south end of Lone Cone Road, you are in a National Forest, the San Juan National Forest I presume. There are a couple turns onto other paved roads but as I recall the way to Dolores is well marked. Finally, you angle down the canyon wall, coming out on 10th or 11th street and interesecting CO145. The road is easy to find in Dolores; you can see it from CO145 as it climbs up out of the canyon on the west side. There is a rumor the Lone Cone Road will all be paved soon.