U.S. Route 550 is known as Colorado's Million Dollar Highway. The road is said to have cost $1 million per mile to construct and travels through the heart of the San Juan Mountains.

Wet autumn road goes from Ouray to Silverton Colorado, the Million Dollar Highway with color, Route 550. (Photo by: Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) by: Maddie Rhodes ...

Mathers On The Map. Driving The Million Dollar Highway And Exploring Switzerland of America - Ouray Colorado. Posted: April 22, 2025 | Last updated: April 22, 2025 ...

It’s been dubbed The Road to Hell, but it’s also called the most beautiful drive in Colorado. The Million Dollar Highway is magnificent, death-defying, and it should have been impossible to build.

The Million Dollar Highway runs for about 23 miles between the mountain towns of Silverton and Ouray in southwestern Colorado, about 5 hours away from Colorado Springs.

OURAY COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado's Million Dollar Highway was closed Wednesday morning after a boulder fell onto the road. U.S. 550 Red Mountain Pass was closed between Silverton and Ouray at 2:30 ...

The Colorado road known as the Million Dollar Highway received an upgrade in five new, permanent avalanche-triggering mechanisms. The devices were placed atop known slide chutes above U.S. 550.

U.S. Highway 550 Colorado (Million Dollar Highway) 3. Interstate 4 ... Mens pro rider LeRoy Popowski flies down Coal Bank Pass during the 2013 Iron Horse Bicycle Classic road race on U.S. Highway 550.

The stretch of U.S. Highway 550 was originally a toll road built in the 1880s and it was then paved in the 1920s, according to Visit Durango. Somewhere along the way, the road was deemed the ...