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Colorado route makes Best American Road Trips list

Are you looking for a cool road trip this summer? Try Colorado’s San Juan Skyway.

The 233-mile loop makes Yahoo Travel’s Top Ten Great All-American Road Trips.

It passes through two alpine national forests, four mountain passes and a handful of old west towns.

The 50-mile million dollar highway section of the route – from Silverton to Ouray – boasts particularly scenic curves through tunnels and atop waterfalls in the Red Mountains and Uncompahgre Gorge.

Others on the list:

•             Alaska – Seward Highway

•             Arizona – Dine’ Tah Scenic Road

•             California – Pacific Coast Highway -aka Route 1

•             Florida – Florida Keys Overseas Highway

•             Minnesota – North Shore Drive

•             New York – Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway

•             North Carolina & Virginia – Blue Ridge Parkway

•             Oregon – Mt. Hood Scenic Byway

•             South Dakota –  Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway