Million Dollar Highway

In 1883, the county of Ouray commissioned Otto Mears to build a toll road from the town of Ouray up to the top of the Uncompahgre Canyon.

Find the turnoff south of Ouray, then hike the Colorado Boy trail through Ironton to the mine.

Workers were clearing a Colorado highway when they realized they heard something from above. It was a wall of snow roaring down a nearby mountain so they grabbed their cameras.

Two people are lucky to be alive after their vehicle plunged off HWY 550 near Red Mountain Pass.