The Million Dollar Highway (US 550) spans from New Mexico to Colorado with the 23 mile stretch between Ouray and Silverton being a popular day trip. There's a variety of theories on how the highway got its name from the total purchase price of the land to the cost per mile to build the highway in the 1930s. Others think that the name comes from the dirt used to build the road which came from nearby gold and silver mines that was worth a million dollars because of the ore!
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A drive along Colorado's Million Dollar Highway came highly recommended, so we devoted part of a day to see why. The mountain scenery along the road between Silverton and Ouray was truly breathtaking!
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