A Snowy Drive over Million Dollar Highway: Red Mountain Pass, Ouray to Silverton
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This drive is a round-trip, beginning and ending in Ouray, Colorado. It follows US Highway 550, the Million Dollar Highway, south, over Red Mountain Pass to Silverton, then returns via the same route.
At first I was disappointed that it was raining in Ouray and Silverton, but the weather was actually quite amazing. Clouds hung low over the mountain peaks, creating a foreboding mood amongst the fall colors in early October. At the pass, above 11,000 feet, it was pouring the snow, creating a beautiful scene.
You'll have to put up with my wiper blades, but I hope you can enjoy the beauty of this drive, on a not-so-perfect day.
Music Info:
Artist: Chris Zabriskie
You'll find the track title(s) at the end of the video.
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still listening to it daily.. 8/26/2024.. and watching.. never gets old
Been there every winter the last 5 years. What a drive. If you haven't been you need to try. Going again this Christmas 2015!
Absolutely beautiful! And I think the gray, wet weather and low clouds enhanced the beauty of the landscape.
Thank you! This was my favorite day of this trip... maybe my favorite day of that entire year.
@@takemytrip .. WoW, those are some fast windshield wipers.. lol
I second that!
The low cloud particularly added the beauty to the mountain foreground.
Impressive! Thanks for sharing a fabulous footage :D
I grew up in Ouray, the town at beginning and end of this video, I learned how to drive on this road (winter and summer), I took my driver's test on this road in February...my father worked at the mine at the 5:50 mark. One of my classmates lives in Silverton, and commutes to Ouray, every day, winter and summer, on this road. There is one avalanche per mile on this road - definitely dangerous - this is the main north-south route on the western side of Colorado; as such, semis drive this road when it's open in the winter. This road isn't for the faint of heart, as you can see - some flatlanders have literally frozen in the middle of the road, unable to drive another foot on this road - but it's well worth the trip.
Wherever my family is, there also is my heart, but my soul remains in those mountains.
Through the rain and the snow, it was still an excellent looking video and an amazing ride. Everything about the ride was great. Glad I was able to view it. Thanx for posting this.
I can't tell you how many videos of I have watched of this drive either coming or going, but this one has a more interesting look with the wet pavement and sped up. And then you get to see it change to snow making it even more scary. I also like that you show going in both directions. This may be my favorite Million Dollar Highway drive video.
I love this part of 550
I'm excited to move to Colorado this month. Can't wait to do this drive!
Can we all agree that 19:45 is the scariest part and probably the best scenery? I think it's because you have that big tall mountain on one side and huge dropoff on the other side with those crazy winding curves. I think this may be where the photo was taken of the original road?
I've driven that road many times, day and nite. Always a thrill, always beautiful! Love it!
Amazing scenery, lovely music, and beautifully filmed video....thoroughly enjoyable. Great job and thanks!
Ya caught me at 2:18. Can you believe I get paid to drive this every day?
I got paid to watch you drive by mile marker 99
Good catch
I look for myself in all these videos
I was there that day too
2:35 is Engineer Pass
Beautiful! I always wondered what driving in snow might be like, and I felt that gave me a taste (the last time I saw snow was in 91 and I've never driven in it). The clouds lifting on the mountains and rain reminded me of a vacation where we had to get off of the mountain where we'd been camping (North Carolina). It was the first time I'd ever encountered 10 foot visibilities while driving - and we crossed a couple of bridges just before they were closed because of flooding.
This road is nuts !! I can't even imagine what it would be like at night !!!! Frightening!!!
It's easier at night. Less traffic and you can't see how far a drop it is.
great great great video!!!! thanks so mucho for all your work!!!
Did that yesterday. In similar conditions. Towing a 40 foot flatbed with 12,000 pounds of plywood on it.
Correction: Far worse conditions. Most of the road was snowpacked, and it was snowing hard.
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!
That speed scares the crud out of me, not to mention no guard rails. Who's idea was it to forget the rails?
I hauled for swift transportation over that road a few times it is no joke to drive on fully loaded. only road in america makes me nervous. Always had rolls of paper from snowflake Arizona going to aspen Colorado newspaper.
Lived in Ouray; you have my respect. I always gave a prayer for the truckers and snowplow drivers who went over Red Mountain.
was it worth the view at fall time
Check the number and color of leaves still on the trees. This trip was NOT a mid-winter recording. Try it in December or January, in an 18 wheeler, with hard-packed snow, and tire chains absolutely necessary, + required by law.
Normal speed would be better
Far better.
go to settings and change it to .5
Tree L. Bolling Thanks, I was starting to get car sick! 😂
Please check out this version and let me know what you think! th-cam.com/video/o1QIZXOVWVQ/w-d-xo.html
Amazing scenery !
What is coming off the mountain at Lookout Point at 20:45? Is that steam?
great road high light of our trip, we towed our 25 ft trail trailer over it
Very nice, thank you.
I think, it would be better to upload non-time-lapsed version of this trip for the benefit of nature-lovers who might like to see the natural beauty as the car moves. Thank you.
Please check out this version and let me know what you think! th-cam.com/video/o1QIZXOVWVQ/w-d-xo.html
love this. but can u upload this again at normal speed? i feel like im going to drive off the cliff at this speed lol
Please check out this version and let me know what you think! th-cam.com/video/o1QIZXOVWVQ/w-d-xo.html
That Highway gives my wife fits in the summer
Beautiful. ❤️
couldn't watch I have vertigo . Pretty country .
I drove monarch pass last week in a big truck with an empty trailer in a snow storm with vertigo, not fun!!
THANKS ❤❤❤
Beautiful colour
Was this actually filmed late November or just posted November 30th. I want to visit Durango/Ouray area by motorcycle October 10-15 wanted to get an idea of what the weather was like.
If I remember correctly, it was the first week of October. The aspens are still colorful -- they usually lose their leaves by the first week of October, so I don't think it was any later than that. I think you could run into just about anything by mid-October :)
@@takemytrip Ok, darn I'll just have watch the weather up until the trip then. Than You!
drove in this during a blizzard my first time coming this way, thought i saw god for a second
What was your average speed while driving in the snow?
Drive over molass and coal bank to Durango next time! Fun drive
A joy to watch. But I wonder why the all so frequent stops.
My wife and I drove this. It was at night and all she kept telling me--"There's NO Guardrail!!! Where's the guardrail!!!!"
Wow, driving it at night. I haven't seen a video of that yet. I didn't even consider. As far as the guard rails there are none so they can remove the snow from the road. At least that's what I read.
so much nice
cool drive
is this speed real? specially for the truck, as I see he is using brakes but how long can he use brakes. it seems that any way you drive from Colorado it is downhill. this does not seem to be a road for heavy trucks.
It's sped-up, probably about 400% to real time.
I grew up in Ouray, and it wasn't unusual to see a trucker, unfamiliar with the road, sitting near the bottom of the "hill," smoking a cigarette, with two or three fire extinguishers around them; the smell of smoking brakes wasn't unusual either. It's the main north-south route in Western Colorado, so there's really not any other way to go, so quite a few trucks do brave this road, winter and summer. On the OTHER side of Silverton (the town at the midpoint in this video), there are two other passes, the Coal Bank, and Molas, which are almost as bad.
There aren't as many accidents on the road as you might think, though; people definitely bring their "A" game while driving it.
Would you consider uploading another version at normal speed?
All you have to do is go on settings a choose half speed,
Yes but it doesn't look the same as if you were looking at it at normal speed.It looks a little strange, like it is a little in slow motion, instead of being normal speed.
Please check out this version and let me know what you think! th-cam.com/video/o1QIZXOVWVQ/w-d-xo.html
Impressing ! Wonder what time ( month ) of winter was this taken ?
rccl36812 think it's fall actually, early October
awesome. how scared were you?
Not scared. Even though it was pouring the snow, I was pretty sure it had been warm enough that it wouldn't stick to the road... much. And there were road crews salting and scraping the road, so I was pretty sure it would stay passable. I learned to drive on snowy roads when I was a teenager, so I'm a little better at it than the average Floridian :)
takemytripdotcom Yeah, I am from the deep South, although I lived for a about four years in West Texas and spent some free time in New Mexico and southern Colorado. So I have very little experience in the snow.
I am not totally comfortable driving in the mountains, even if there isn't a cloud in the sky. I am probably more comfortable in the mountains at night when you can see beyond what is immediately in front of you.
The truck driver at 18:59 must have been drunk or something?? That's dangerous for everyone on the road!!!
+Anh LUU actually I thought he was doing a pretty good job. All those curves would be a nightmare for a big truck.
Didn't he take the opposite lane for some seconds around that time or it is just my eyes??
+Anh LUU yes he did. couldn't get around the curves otherwise.
+Anh LUU 70ft truck going around curves designed for a 10ft car. of course he had to veer left a little to make the turn, he wasn't far enough over where he would have hit anything
Doubt he was drunk, probably just unsure of the road. There are only 3 spots on that pass that require a truck to encroach on the oncoming lane and none of those were the places where he was in the video.
Makes me dizzy
Hi apo
I think that highway would have cost a bit more than a million dollars.
I want to drive and enjoy it but NOOOOO. I work and more work. :/
Dude slow down!! You're going wayyyy too fast! 🤣
Much better muted.
Now that is one road that definitely NEEDS guardrails !!!
Snow removal and road maintenance is easier without guardrails, and they'd just get taken out by the rocks and avalanches (one avalanche, basically, per mile...I didn't drive it if I didn't have to in the winter...EVER).
nfs the run