CO Hwy 550 - Montrose to Durango
How is this route? According to the trip planner it looks like all mountain driving to me. Anybody familiar with this route? Would you recommend using it with a 34' travel trailer in tow?
Forum Discussion
Ken and I are usually on the same page but not so much here.
I drive in my lane - rv or not. But if some car, rv or truck takes up even 1/3 of my lane coming against me I would rather bump off a guard rail than go down a few hundred or more feet.
And people drive that road, or any mountain road, that way - too busy gawking (or now text or talking) to pay full attention. Or white knuckling it as they are not mountain road comfortable.
We saw it all the time on Trail Ridge Road in Estes - same thing, different road. (Difference there was you did not go over and fall down all the distance and land with a bang, you got to roll all the way down!)
Hey, bottom line - whatever you are comfortable with.
I drive in my lane - rv or not. But if some car, rv or truck takes up even 1/3 of my lane coming against me I would rather bump off a guard rail than go down a few hundred or more feet.
And people drive that road, or any mountain road, that way - too busy gawking (or now text or talking) to pay full attention. Or white knuckling it as they are not mountain road comfortable.
We saw it all the time on Trail Ridge Road in Estes - same thing, different road. (Difference there was you did not go over and fall down all the distance and land with a bang, you got to roll all the way down!)
Hey, bottom line - whatever you are comfortable with.
