Durango to Ouray
Planning to spend a week in Ouray, Co. this summer.... coming from Texas via Durango. Pulling a 26' bumper tow with a Dodge 1500 4x4. I've pulled through plenty of mountains before... just not t...
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Ozlander wrote:
I've never seen heavy traffic on the road. been over it several time pulling a trailer.
There's millions of miles of roads in the world that don't have guardrails and people seem to do OK without them.
You must not have traveled 550 from Durango to Silverton on a weekend or during the summer vacation period. I lived in Durango and drove 550 to work in Grand Junction, but maybe what I call heavy traffic is not what you call heavy traffic. Being the 9th vehicle behind some tour bus/RV creeping up or down the mountain is not pleasant and provokes some hairy passing behavior in some people.
Going off of a road that does not have a guard rail, does not have the same consequences in flat lands as it does in the CO mountains.
