Crews will perform safety-critical winter maintenance operations on US 550 Red Mountain Pass on Friday which will result in intermittent highway closures lasting upward of 30 minutes.

OURAY COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — U.S. Highway 550 will close Monday afternoon as part of winter maintenance operations, the Colorado Department of Transportation said. Crews will start operations at 4:30 ...

Update: As of 2:40 p.m., Highway 550, Red Mountain Pass, is now open with alternating lanes of traffic, according to Ouray County Sheriff’s Office. Fire crews are still active in the area. The ...

OURAY COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) – The identities of the victims in crashes on U.S. 550 that happened on Tuesday and Wednesday were announced by the Ouray County Coroner’s Office. Coroner R. Glenn Boyd said ...

OURAY COUNTY, COLO. (KOAA) — The Colorado State Patrol says that two people are dead and a child was rescued from a vehicle that went over the edge along Red Mountain Pass on Tuesday. The crash took ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Two people have died, and a young girl was rescued after a car ran off Red Mountain Pass on August 5th, 2025. According to the Colorado State Patrol (CSP), a silver ...

Three crashes on U.S. Highway 550 in as many days claimed three lives, including that of a Montrose man, and resulted in two different rescues of survivors. A Tuesday crash off Red Mountain Pass ...

A pickup truck driver took a 300-foot plunge from Colorado’s “Million Dollar Highway” last week, walking away with minor injuries after a technical rope rescue. The truck went off U.S. Highway 550 on ...

One car rolled 320 feet down side of Red Mountain Pass As of Aug. 24, there are now four deaths on U.S. Highway 550 Northbound from Silverton heading toward Ouray, and Colona. On Saturday, a ...

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