US Ends .com

At the time of this writing, it has been 50 years since the US 24 designation was cancelled between Grand Junction and Minturn, CO, leaving only US 6 along that stretch.  Nevertheless, some locals (particularly along the segment around Glenwood Springs, New Castle, Silt, and Rifle) still refer to the old road as "Highway 6 & 24". Gabe Chenoweth, General Manager of KMTS(FM) in Glenwood, was curious about that, so he did some searching online and found the usends.com website. Since he is also the host of a long-form interview program, he reached out to me and asked if I would be interested in discussing that subject on the air.  I agreed, and we did the interview on Sep. 29, 2025.  If you'd like to hear it, please visit this page . To prepare for that interview, I did a fair amount of research, but as it turned out, there wasn't enough time in the program to include all of the material.  Not wanting that effort to go to waste, I decided to post all of my...

^ date reposted to this blog Jun. 29, 2017: originally posted to my old blog Jun. 02, 2026: last updated Today, Denver is served by seven different US routes (shown above), but when the US highway system was first commissioned in late 1926, only three routes went through Denver. AASHO officials acknowledged the city's importance by placing it at the junction of a major north-south route (US 85, which ran from a Canadian port of entry almost to Mexico) and a transcontinental east-west route (US 40, which connected Atlantic City NJ to the San Francisco Bay Area): c. 1927, Rand McNally The third US highway serving Denver was US 285, but it was not the same as the route that carries that designation today. Instead of heading west and south from Denver, the original US 285 went north from Denver, essentially following the route of modern US 287 through Broomfield, Lafayette, Longmont, Loveland, and Ft. Collins, ending in Laramie WY. Although US 285 [i] lasted only about eight years...