I took a vacation after Christmas about 50 years ago by going from Kansas City to Durango in my new Audi Fox. It was a great car in snow. I crossed Wolf Creek Pass packed with snow and spent a couple of days in Durango and then did Coal Bank in a snow storm. LOL rolled a snowmobile later in the week with my wife on it. She did not like that but we were going only one mile an hour.
Wolf Creek Pass has been rebuilt since then. Not near as exciting. It is hard to distinguish which version of the Pass you are referring to as there was a version in the 50s and prior that was called Old Wolf Creek Pass that was still marked by road markers in the 70s when we were driving on (what was then) New Wolf Creek Pass. I guess we have New-New Wolf Creek Pass now.
Wolf Creek completely “modernized.” Pull offs. Wide lanes, etc.
Great hamburger joint near Purgatory N. of Durango.