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I'm going to delete the sentence "Do not attempt Imogene Pass with a passenger car; it will get stuck on rocks and/or stream crossings." Reply here if you think for some reason it should stay. The sentence before it says it it's a four wheel drive road, and wikipedia isn't exactly a trail guide for what cars you shouldn't take somewhere. Given it's a four wheel drive road, someone can do whatever they want without wikipedia telling them 'do not' with a passenger car. In fact, lots of passenger cars will make it over. I've done it in suburbans, and people have towed U-haul's over before.
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I have expanded the article and added citations (it previously had none). Notes on the main changes:
Power line. The article said the "first long distance alternating current power line" was built over the pass. That is not correct: the Telluride Power Company's first AC transmission (1890–91) ran from the Ames station to the Gold King mill, south-west of Telluride (P. N. Nunn, "Pioneer Work of the Telluride Power Company", Transactions of the International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, 1904, vol. 2, pp. 410–411). I have replaced it with what the sources support: Nunn (pp. 416–418) on the company supplying the Camp Bird Mine with lines across the divides around Savage Basin; the NRHP nomination for Fort Peabody (sec. 8, p. 6) on the company's building at the summit in 1903; and the Imogene Pass Run's course description on a power line over the pass, abandoned in the 1950s. None of these says explicitly that the Camp Bird line crossed Imogene Pass, so the article presents them separately (per WP:SYNTH). If anyone finds a source that makes the connection, the text can be tightened. Many tourism and 4WD sites repeat the "first" claim, but they appear to copy this article or a single guidebook.
Highest / second-highest. I couldn't find a reliable source for the ranking claims in the lead, so they're tagged {{citation needed}}. A 2025 Tread Magazine article repeats this article's old lead word for word, so it shouldn't be used as a source (WP:CIRCULAR). The ranking also depends on whether Argentine Pass (13,207 ft) counts as a vehicular crossing. I have narrowed "highest mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains" to "highest vehicular pass", since the unreliable sources I found (a 4WD club handout, SummitPost and tourism sites) only claim it is the highest pass road in the range; the claim remains unsourced and tagged.
Road history. Tourism sites say the road was built in 1880. The race organisers' course description says the original crossing was a pack trail and that the present road over the pass was completed in 1966; the article follows that. The Colorado Encyclopedia and the NRHP form mention a road to the pass by the 1950s, which may refer to the roads up either side. A better source on the road's construction would be welcome.
Fort Peabody. Per the NRHP nomination, the fort is on the ridge above and southeast of the pass summit (13,365 ft), not on the pass itself. The text now reflects that.
Other. Removed trail-guide wording ("not for the novice driver", in the spirit of the 2009 discussion above), puffery ("grueling"), two dead external links and a category for the wrong county. Added sections and expanded the lead. Reassessed from Stub to Start.
