Gunnison to Ouray to Durango CO

Old-Biscuit, I get the picture you're painting, but shouldn't properly adjusted brakes on the trailer keep all that from happening? The trailer stops the trailer...the truck stops the truck.

Black canyon of the Gunnison is a beautiful RV park with one loop having electric. The small city of Montrose is very modern with everything you could want. We always take Rt. 550 down to Ridgeway(State park is beautiful)and cut over to Rt 149 and down to Delores than over to Durango. Durango is a very nice modern college town but can be very busy traffic.

I have towed tent trailers over the million dollar highway a few times without having to change my choners more than once. I am very comfortable and experienced with mountain driving. But I have reached the age that I won't take a large rig over that road.

10,000# GVWR 5vr and a F150......limited mountain driving ?????


Downshift and hold speed down BEFORE it gets too much.
Stay off truck brakes as much as possible........don't ride them
Scrub speed off quickly (drop 10 mph) then off brakes to let them cool
Downshift and hold speed down BEFORE it gets too much

Pull over in 'pull outs' frequently to relax as necessary....and let truck brakes cool off if you have ridden them too much

Go to Search on here and put in Red Mountain Pass or Million Dollar Hwy or Hwy 550 to learn about Ouray south and then over to Durango. Basically you will have 2 lane road, many times with about 12 inches of shoulder and then down a few hundred feet and quite a bit with a guard rail. And people coming the other way that take their half out of the middle.

You will have some that poo poo all the concern; am just laying out the facts.

I have driven it several times with the TV; never with the 5er.

Lizard Head Pass is the alternate way and it is beautiful.