Granby station

Granby, CO
Granby station.
General information
Location438 Railroad Avenue
Granby, Colorado[1]
United States
Coordinates40°05′03″N 105°56′08″W / 40.0841°N 105.9355°W / 40.0841; -105.9355
OwnerUnion Pacific Railroad & Town of Granby
LineMoffat Tunnel Subdivision
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Construction
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: GRA
History
Opened1987
Passengers
FY 20253,682[2] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Glenwood Springs
toward Emeryville
 California Zephyr Fraser–Winter Park
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Glenwood Springs
toward Los Angeles
 Desert Wind Fraser–Winter Park
toward Chicago
Glenwood Springs
toward Seattle
 Pioneer
Before 1991 reroute
Preceding station Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Following station
Hot Sulphur Springs
toward Ogden
 Moffat Tunnel Route Tabermash
toward Denver
Location

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.[Note 1] The wood station building 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.[3] 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 Gold Line, a free bus route from Granby Amtrak Station to Grand Lake, the western gateway town of Rocky Mountain National Park. From Grand Lake, however, there are no public shuttle buses operating into the park, only a handful of private guided tours. When planning the ROX Gold Line, Grand County Commissioners discussed extending the route to serve the park directly. Instead, it is proposed that the town of Grand Lake operate a separate seasonal shuttle into the park.

Notes

  1. ↑ The westbound train (Route 5) is scheduled to stop in the late morning and the eastbound train (Route 6) in the mid afternoon.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Granby, Colorado". amtrak.com. Amtrak. September 3, 2025. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal year 2025: State of Colorado" (PDF). Amtrak. January 2026. Retrieved January 29, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Rocky Mountains National Park Colorado: Directions". nps.gov. National Park Service. Retrieved January 10, 2014.

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