Cable car · United States
Monarch Crest Tramway
Monarch Crest Tramway is a cable car near United States. It climbs 178 m over 436 m, from 3,449 m to 3,627 m above sea level. Between its 7 pylons, the cable runs up to about 31 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
1/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Monarch Crest Tramway is scarier than 1% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 113 of 121 in the United States.
- Highest above the ground: about 31 m, as high as a 10-storey building, 97 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 94 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 0°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Monarch Crest Tramway is in the United States, at 3,449 m above sea level (38.49592° N, 106.32485° W). From there it runs 436 m up to the top station at 3,627 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.