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Originally Posted by Workman
No danger of me trying to navigate a motor coach on the Million Dollar Hwy. I was born in Ouray - lived at the Idarado Mine till I was 5 yo, then in Ouray till I was 10. Left Colorado in 1957. Been back a couple of times and actually rode my bike over it - beautiful but a bit scary.
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It's not called the Million Dollar Hwy for the reason you might think. It's because there is a million dollars worth of cars, trucks and motorcycles in the ditch 1,000 feet to the right of the north bound lanes.