CDOT Crews out plowing highway 550 after this last snowstorm photo by Jim Gardner
Traveling over Colorado State Highway 550 headed out of or into Silverton can be sketchy at best for many reasons. Some include sudden safety closures, planned construction delays throughout summer, sheer cliffs, accidents, rocks, mud slides, wildfires, blizzards, rain, sun, tourists, land whales (aka large campers), moose, deer, elk, lynxes, big horn sheep and even grazing cattle on Lime Creek...
