Colorado Web Cams
Villa Grove, Colorado
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Villa Grove is located in Saguache County, Colorado. The town sits at the bottom of Poncha Pass. The cams are located south of where the town is located.
Please note that mismanagement at CDOT has taken away the beautiful mountain views that these cams once showed, and in exchange they are now showing more of the road surface, even though enough of the road was already being seen before. The people in charge of this don't understand that us locals who live in this area, along with tourists too, want and need to see the mountains in the view. For the locals living in the valley and foothills here, when we are away from the area, and it's time to head back home, we check on these cams to see the road and sky conditions. But we can no longer see the mountain views on winter days anymore. When we could years ago, their view told us if it was snowing in the local mountains without having to even see the roads, since seeing if the mountains were visible or not, let us know if it might be snowing on the nearby valley roads or not (especially on these two highways). This is the case for all our cams everywhere, as the cams can't show 100% of the roads, but they can show the mountains, which tells us something in regard to the road we can't see and what their conditions may be and if it's raining or snowing on them. But CDOT now has a person in charge these days of our cams who doesn't care (she flat out told me this!). Yet us local Colorado taxpayers, pay for these cams, and the person in charge won't listen to reason or talk to the people who pay her salary, when we try to talk sense to her. She's a very rude person to deal with over the phone when we the taxpayers try to explain to her the problem she is causing us. If we try to send her emails - she doesn't reply to them. Again, I know this first hand as I and at least 3 others have tried talking to her and all of us received the same rude replies from her. But we can't give up on this. Please keep trying to call CDOT's main phone line at CDOT Headquarters in Denver at 303-757-9011 and try to talk reason to anybody who will listen. If we don't give up, just maybe they will do something to solved this problem!
Update: The first cam looking north is now showing the mountains again like it used to years ago, excellent! But the main south cam that used to be located on Highway 17, is still gone, along with the 3 cams that used to be up in the town of Hooper (half an hour drive to the south from this first missing cam). So CO 17 now has no cams on it at all in these areas - heading all the way into Alamosa and then even well past that town. In fact, the only cams left on CO 17 are way down by the New Mexico boarder. I still have some hope others working there will see the light and take care of this problem that one uncaring person made for so many others. They did at least change But we can at the least, keep speaking up about this!
South of Villa Grove/US 285 |
South of Villa Grove (from US 285 looking at CO Hwy 17/San de Cristo Mts) CDOT has removed this VERY IMPORTANT CAM! PLEASE ask CDOT to return this cam ASAP! |
South of Villa Grove |
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