The drive is 156.1 miles, about 3h 27m. Along it sit about 49 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 41 of those have somewhere to eat within a 10-minute walk, so the charging stop and the meal are the same stop.
Open this drive in the app →Leave Denver at 8:00 am, take a break in Kremmling at 10:20 am and arrive in Steamboat Springs around 11:45 am.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Denver, CO | ||
| 10:20 am Break · mile 105 | Kremmling, CO Kremmling, CO - Park Avenue - Tesla Supercharger | 250 kW 8 stalls | 🥪 Subway 4 min |
| ~11:45 am | Arrive in Steamboat Springs, CO |
Meals fall near their local hour (times are local at each stop), with about 20 minutes for a break and 40 for a meal. It is a driver’s plan, not a charging plan: where you need to charge depends on your car. Open this drive in the app to pick another leaving time.
Typical power along this route is 200 kW, with 34 stops at 150 kW or more and 11 on the Tesla network. Chargers under 50 kW are left out of the list — on a drive this length they cost more time than they save. Counting every DC fast charger, there is one at least every 50 miles of the way.
In order along the route.
Leaving Denver at 8:00 am, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's break in Kremmling, CO at 10:20 am: Subway is a 4-minute walk from a 250 kW charger. In all, 41 of the roughly 49 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 49 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 156-mile route, 48 of them 50 kW or more. 34 charge at 150 kW or more, 11 are on the Tesla network, and 41 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
50 miles, between mile 105 (Kremmling, CO) and mile 155 (Steamboat Springs, CO), with no DC fast charger within 5 miles of the route.
Counting the fast chargers of 50 kW or more on the route, the chains most often within a 10-minute walk are Starbucks (near 23 chargers), McDonald's (16), Wendy's (13), Taco Bell (12), Chipotle (11) and Subway (10).
It depends on the car. The app's estimate for a 10–80% charge is about 23 min for a Tesla Model Y at the 250 kW charger in Kremmling, CO; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 250 kW charger in Kremmling, CO; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 250 kW charger in Kremmling, CO. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 3h 27m of driving for 156 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 1 break of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 11:45 am.