Ouray to Silverton

The road from Ouray, Colorado to Silverton, Colorado, also named the "Million Dollar Highway," will take you across the San Juan Mountains' Red Mountain Pass and through amazing mountain scenery. The twenty-some miles will take about an hour -- and that's without the photo stops! In addition to the fabulous mountain views, groves of quaking aspens are everywhere, and they must be breathtaking when their leaves have turned to gold in the fall.

Both towns still show evidence of their mining past -- Ouray at it's peak had 30 silver and gold mines, while Silverton was a silver mining camp.

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The City of Ouray, located in a box canyon of the San Juan Mountains -- also called "The Switzerland of America:"
Contemporary Ouray solution to living on the hillside:
The Red Mountains (two of three peaks):
Mountain scenery near the pass:
Abandoned mining house with curtains painted on the window covers:
Downtown Silverton, Colorado: