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Loveland Pass, 1941. It is located on the Continental Divide in the Front Range, west of Denver on U.S. Highway 6 (US 6). The twisty road is considered to be especially treacherous during the winter months. A steep, steady 6.7% grade, along with numerous hairpin turns on either side, make it difficult to snowplow the road regularly.
The video shows a car pass multiple stopped vehicles on an ice-covered road before sliding entirely off. More freezing rain was in the forecast Monday night for the Kansas City area.
Crews plan intermittent closures on northbound U.S. 169 from Fifth Street to Richards Road between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday, Brooke Rohlfing, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of ...
Missouri also maintains a secondary set of roads, supplemental routes, which are lettered rather than numbered. Route 366 in St. Louis Missouri has also changed highway designations with a US route or an interstate with the same number is designated through the state (Route 40 was redesignated Route 14 to avoid duplicating numbers with US-40 ...
Route 6 is a 211-mile-long (340 km) state highway in the northern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. It travels from I-29 Bus./US 169 in St. Joseph to US 24/US 61 about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Quincy, Illinois. Route 6, if only a few miles longer in each direction, would be the only state highway to cross Missouri west to east.
The US 6 corridor crosses two passes: Loveland Pass, at an elevation of 11,992 feet (3,655 m), and Vail Pass, at 10,666 feet (3,251 m). [2] Engineers recommended tunneling under Loveland Pass to bypass the steep grades and hairpin curves required to navigate US 6. The project was originally called the Straight Creek Tunnel, after the waterway ...
Decommissioned in Missouri. [7] US 78 — — — — — — Former proposal highway in Missouri. US 80 — — — — — — Former proposal highway in Missouri. US 136: 257.457: 414.337 US 136 west of Rock Port: US 136 west of Keokuk, IA: 1951: current US 159: 17.648: 28.402 US 159 east of Rulo, NE: US 59 north of St. Joseph: 1935: current ...
Heading east from Bishop, California. The modern US 6 in California is a short, two-lane, north–south surface highway from Bishop to the Nevada state line. Prior to the 1964 state highway renumbering, US 6 extended to Long Beach along what is now US 395, State Route 14 (SR 14), Interstate 5 (I-5), I-110/SR 110, and SR 1.