Colorado

[thenetwork]

And can we talk about that unholy relationship between 6 and 70? On again, off again. No commitment. 70 just tosses 6 aside like a used tissue in some places. Kinda sad, really.

As far as I could tell, it exists all the way from Grand Junction to Silverthorne, but sometimes it's multiplexed with I-70, and sometimes there's an adjacent road that is still important enough to number it, so why not keep its old US-6 designation? I-70 only gets that designation in order to maintain a continous routing of US-6.

It's impossible to drive continuously at Rifle.

Huh??? Technically, US-6 is on its own surface road between Mack and Palisade (Exit 45), Debeque (Exit 62) and Canyon Creek (Exit 109), West Glenwood (Exit 114) and CO-82 (Exit 116) and Dotsero (Exit 133) and Minturn/US-24 (Exit 171). 

Whether it's officially MARKED on said road or on I-70 exit signs is a way different story.

[JayhawkCO]

And can we talk about that unholy relationship between 6 and 70? On again, off again. No commitment. 70 just tosses 6 aside like a used tissue in some places. Kinda sad, really.

As far as I could tell, it exists all the way from Grand Junction to Silverthorne, but sometimes it's multiplexed with I-70, and sometimes there's an adjacent road that is still important enough to number it, so why not keep its old US-6 designation? I-70 only gets that designation in order to maintain a continous routing of US-6.

It's impossible to drive continuously at Rifle.

Huh??? Technically, US-6 is on its own surface road between Mack and Palisade (Exit 45), Debeque (Exit 62) and Canyon Creek (Exit 109), West Glenwood (Exit 114) and CO-82 (Exit 116) and Dotsero (Exit 133) and Minturn/US-24 (Exit 171). 

Whether it's officially MARKED on said road or on I-70 exit signs is a way different story.

This is the official designation of US6 near Rifle.



You'll see 006D to the east and 006L to the west. There is a gap.

[thenetwork]

And can we talk about that unholy relationship between 6 and 70? On again, off again. No commitment. 70 just tosses 6 aside like a used tissue in some places. Kinda sad, really.

As far as I could tell, it exists all the way from Grand Junction to Silverthorne, but sometimes it's multiplexed with I-70, and sometimes there's an adjacent road that is still important enough to number it, so why not keep its old US-6 designation? I-70 only gets that designation in order to maintain a continous routing of US-6.

It's impossible to drive continuously at Rifle.

Huh??? Technically, US-6 is on its own surface road between Mack and Palisade (Exit 45), Debeque (Exit 62) and Canyon Creek (Exit 109), West Glenwood (Exit 114) and CO-82 (Exit 116) and Dotsero (Exit 133) and Minturn/US-24 (Exit 171). 

Whether it's officially MARKED on said road or on I-70 exit signs is a way different story.

This is the official designation of US6 near Rifle.



You'll see 006D to the east and 006L to the west. There is a gap.

That's only because CO-13 was routed (but sparsely signed) along that US-6 "gap" and around the Rifle Bypass as CDOT considers most multiplexes as the evil Satan. But for all intents and purposes to the naked eye and average driver, US-6 is still  there, just a more bastardized red-headed stepchild of the stepchild siblings.

[US 89]

And can we talk about that unholy relationship between 6 and 70? On again, off again. No commitment. 70 just tosses 6 aside like a used tissue in some places. Kinda sad, really.

As far as I could tell, it exists all the way from Grand Junction to Silverthorne, but sometimes it's multiplexed with I-70, and sometimes there's an adjacent road that is still important enough to number it, so why not keep its old US-6 designation? I-70 only gets that designation in order to maintain a continous routing of US-6.

It's impossible to drive continuously at Rifle.

Huh??? Technically, US-6 is on its own surface road between Mack and Palisade (Exit 45), Debeque (Exit 62) and Canyon Creek (Exit 109), West Glenwood (Exit 114) and CO-82 (Exit 116) and Dotsero (Exit 133) and Minturn/US-24 (Exit 171). 

Whether it's officially MARKED on said road or on I-70 exit signs is a way different story.

This is the official designation of US6 near Rifle.



You'll see 006D to the east and 006L to the west. There is a gap.

That's only because CO-13 was routed (but sparsely signed) along that US-6 "gap" and around the Rifle Bypass as CDOT considers most multiplexes as the evil Satan. But for all intents and purposes to the naked eye and average driver, US-6 is still  there, just a more bastardized red-headed stepchild of the stepchild siblings.

That segment is also still signed as US 6 in numerous locations, so removing the number from that segment obviously wasn't a priority...

[JayhawkCO]

And can we talk about that unholy relationship between 6 and 70? On again, off again. No commitment. 70 just tosses 6 aside like a used tissue in some places. Kinda sad, really.

As far as I could tell, it exists all the way from Grand Junction to Silverthorne, but sometimes it's multiplexed with I-70, and sometimes there's an adjacent road that is still important enough to number it, so why not keep its old US-6 designation? I-70 only gets that designation in order to maintain a continous routing of US-6.

It's impossible to drive continuously at Rifle.

Huh??? Technically, US-6 is on its own surface road between Mack and Palisade (Exit 45), Debeque (Exit 62) and Canyon Creek (Exit 109), West Glenwood (Exit 114) and CO-82 (Exit 116) and Dotsero (Exit 133) and Minturn/US-24 (Exit 171). 

Whether it's officially MARKED on said road or on I-70 exit signs is a way different story.

This is the official designation of US6 near Rifle.



You'll see 006D to the east and 006L to the west. There is a gap.

That's only because CO-13 was routed (but sparsely signed) along that US-6 "gap" and around the Rifle Bypass as CDOT considers most multiplexes as the evil Satan. But for all intents and purposes to the naked eye and average driver, US-6 is still  there, just a more bastardized red-headed stepchild of the stepchild siblings.

Agreed you can still follow it, unlike US85 in the Springs, but CO13 isn't even officially on that Rifle Bypass. So unless US6 is an electron and CO13 is a positron, one is not precluding the other from being signed there as every other multi-plex has at least one "dominant" route signed.

There's also the weird 006N in Gypsum and 006K in Glenwood Springs that don't connect to anything.