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[dancingwoman]

@Kachina624   @SilleeMee If you like to see an interesting half hr documentary about a road being built here....download the Rocky Mountain PBS app..do a search for 550..here's a screenshot of it..DW

[SilleeMee]

@dancingwoman 

Thank you so much!  I love a good docu about our state history. That's right up my alley b/c I studied SW Native American history in college. Fascinating!

I missed the show from today on PBS. But it will air again on March 17. I'll try to find it online and watch it before then.

[dancingwoman]

@SilleeMee   It's on the RMPBS app right now...I just searched for 550 and it came up...scroll till you see the pic I attached and click on it...it was very good...We watched it at 10am..the neighbors came over and we watched it together....DW

[SilleeMee]

I'm looking at my DirecTV schedule and it's not showing. On my desktop I can't find it either and I don't have a smart phone or tablet to load that app. I'll have to wait until they air it again on TV, March 17.

[Kachina624]

@dancingwoman   @SilleeMee    I'll look forward to watching this probably this evening.  Hwy 550 is the Million Dollar Hwy., right?  It runs across Sandoval County where I live about 4 miles from my house.  When I first rode the MDH as a child, it wasn't paved and of course not even a hint if a guardrail.  I made the whole trip in the floorboard of the car.  Since then, I've driven it many times as it's a boulevard compared to what it was then.

I've heard it called one of the most dangerous roads in America but right now, I'd worry most about avalanches than the road.

[SilleeMee]

@Kachina624 

The Million Dollar Hwy is the stretch of 550 between Ouray and Silverton specifically. It's high in the mountains and it cost a fortune to build...thus the name.

[SilleeMee]

Rumor has it that the Million Dollar Hwy may have gotten that name b/c when they made the road some say it covered the hoards of gold beneath the road in them there hills.

[Kachina624]

Or that it originally was gravelled with rock that had gold in it.  Many stories abound. 

[dancingwoman]

@Kachina624  @SilleeMee  This 550 is heading south up Farmington hill.  If you took it, it would go Farmington NM.  DW

[dancingwoman]

550 runs north and south...DW