San Juan Skyway
PROGRAM
Summary
Program Preview
Video Tape
Credits
HISTORY
Introduction
Million Dollar Highway
The Uncompahgre Utes
Mining in Silverton & Ironton
Mine Worker Strikes
Mesa Verde
References
WAYSIDE EXCURSION
Otto Mears
Chief Ouray
Virginia McClurg
LESSON PLANS
Follow the Road to Riches
Mesa Verde
TRAVEL
Chambers/Visitor Centers
Weather/Road Conditions
Map
RESOURCES
San Juan Skyway Timeline
Test Your Knowledge
America's Byways Timeline
Teacher's Guide

Mountain with golden field
San Juan Mountains
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San Juan Skyway

Video Tape

Frontier Pathways videoAt 236 miles, San Juan Skyway is the longest of these five America’s Scenic and Historic Byways, and perhaps its most spectacular.

Its awe-inspiring landscapes also hold engineering wonders such as Otto Mears' “million dollar highway” and Mesa Verde's ancient cliff dwellings. Traveling the Skyway offers lessons in man’s relation to nature, to one another, and in the power of one person to exploit or protect natural and cultural riches.

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HIGHLIGHTS
Ute Chief with his horse
Chief Ignacio, 1904
Courtesy, Library of Congress, LOT 12918, Photograph by Frank S. Balster

To the Native Americans, the San Juans with the majestic mountains and lush forest are “close to what we call heaven.”


Green forest in front of Red Mountain
Red Mountain
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The Skyway itself is like the history of the San Juans. Filled with heart-skipping ups and downs, breathtaking twists and turns, and rustling with the glimmer of gold and silver


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