Wolf Creek Pass was made famous in 1975 by country music artist C. W. McCall's spoken word song of the same name, in which the pass is described as 37 miles o' hell - which is up on the Great Divide. The song describes the truck careening down through a tunnel (during which process several crates of chickens stacked on the back of the truck are inadvertently lost) and eventually into a feed store in Pagosa Springs.