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Granby

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Granby

Granby station is a train station in Granby, Colorado. It is served by Amtrak's California Zephyr, which runs once daily between Chicago and Emeryville, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Despite its antiquated appearance and structure (the station is made of wood), the station was built in

1987. Avalanche Car Rentals offers rental SUVs that can be booked for pickup at Granby Station, though the vehicles cannot be driven out of Grand County. Under the Mountain Rail plan, Granby will be the initial terminus of a new state-supported Amtrak route from Denver, with intermediate stops at Fraser and Winter Park Resort. As of August 2026, service is planned to begin in November 2026, with one daily round trip. In the future, service is planned to expand to three daily round trips, with service extending west to Craig in the Yampa Valley. Granby is proposed as a station for accessing Rocky Mountain National Park by train. However, while the train ride (from the Denver side) provides impressive views, the station itself lies 16 miles (26 km) from the park, without public transportation connections. In June 2026, the transit agency of Winter Park, the Lift, began operating the ROX...

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