20 World’s Wonderful Alpine Roads Where You Can Enjoy the Exhilarating Feeling



Million Dollar Highway–Colorado USA

In the US state of the centennial, there’s a special highway built in the late 1880s: the Million Dollar Highway. It's one of the nation’s most prominent drives. You'll be on the outside for a while with a hell of a view to your right let the commuter look. You'll want to watch the road. Forget accustomed driving safety measures like balustrades and shoulders. It is one of the roads on the Trails of the primitive Byway, one of the delegate's New Mexico Scenic Byways. Though the entire stretch has been called the Million Dollar Highway, it is really the twelve miles 19 km south of Ouray through the Uncompahgre Gorge to the summit of Red Mountain Pass which gains the highway its name.

Except for sections passing through the towns of San Ysidro, Cuba, Bloomfield, and Aztec, eliminate for sections passing through the above-listed towns, U.S. 550 in New Mexico has been modernizing to four lanes, offering a high-speed 70 mph interconnection for Farmington, New Mexico, and Durango, Colorado to Albuquerque