debraindi wrote:
I plane on a Colorado trip in July I'm not worry with my 36 ft fw toy hauler pulling the Colorado mt with the lml duramax . AS I remember riding 550 route years ago on my Harley its a wide good road with lots of climbing and curves. Someone correct me if I am wrong.It cant be any worse then going through El Paso tx during rush hour because of accident closing trans mt by pass 2 days ago. If I remember right the rout your taking seemed to be a lower elevation very nice 2 lane road.
You may be thinking of a different route or a different portion of US 550. Climbing out of Ouray toward Silverton, it's certainly not a "wide good road". It's narrow with shelf road in many spots and avalanche chutes til you get to the top at Red Mountain Pass at just over 11000 feet. Then you've got 2 additional passes with Molas (10900 feet) and Coal Bank (10600 feet). Once you get down into the Animas Valley, it's not difficult down to Durango, then taking US 160 over to Cortez.
