Talk:U.S. Route 550
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads in the United States. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. |
| Topics |  U.S. Highways  New Mexico  Colorado |
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. (add assessment comments) |
| Mid | This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale. |
 |
The map in this article is maintained by the Maps task force. |
 |
This article is part of WikiProject Colorado, an effort to create, expand, organize, and improve Colorado-related articles to a feature-quality standard. |
Can someone put up some photos for this highway? --Celendin 10:58, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Animated image
I added Image:hwy550-ani.gif because I think it helps illustrate the character of this highway – no shoulder and a steep drop right at the edge of the outside lane. This was somewhere on the drive down into Ouray from the south, very near the artificial tunnel that protects against rock/snow slides. Sorry that it's so short and jerky. My wife was trying to take a photograph and didn't realize that I had left the camera in movie mode, so the clip was an accident and not carefully shot. I won't complain too bitterly if others think that it does not add to the article and decide to remove it. --Kbh3rdtalk 20:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
Most the content in Million Dollar Highway duplicates the content found here, and the rest can be easily merged. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 02:44, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- I concur. If the colorado section of this article was large, it would make sense to break out the million dollar highway portion into its own article. But being as how both of these articles are quite short, not much point in 2 articles. Probably should have Million Dollary Highway redirect to the Colorado portion of this article. Davemeistermoab 03:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
- Merge performed. —Scott5114↗ 09:05, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- It still needs massaging. I'll work on it, and sources. I am familiar with this highway and can vouch for most of it (although I only heard the legend million dollars worth of gold dust in the fill dirt). Davemeistermoab 17:50, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
- Merge performed. —Scott5114↗ 09:05, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Million Dollar Highway
A portion of Ridge Road (NY 31) between Niagara Falls and Rochester was also known as the Million Dollar Highway. Unless this name is completely unused now in New York, it might be better to turn Million Dollar Highway into a dab page. --Polaron | Talk 12:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
- I've gone through the first 3 pages of hits on Google with a search for "Million Dollar Highway". Every one has referred to US 550 in Colorado except for one link to a picture of a highway in Pennsylvania, with no further information. No page from any travel or roadtrip site has referred to anywhere else but Colorado. So I'd wait until there is actually an article for the highway in New York then have at the top of the article for US 550 "Million Dollar Highway" redirects here, for other uses....... Davemeistermoab 17:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
