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The two sections of the road are joined by a 49-mile (79 km) section composed mostly of unpaved road and a brief stretch of SH 141, neither of which are officially part of SH 90. Thus the official length of the road is 41.9 miles (67.4 km), but driving from one end to the other will require traveling at least 89 miles (143 km).
Monument Canyon. Colorado National Monument is a National Park Service unit near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado. Sheer-walled canyons cut deep into sandstone and granite–gneiss–schist rock formations. This is an area of desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinyon and juniper forests on the plateau.
Colorado National Monument 39°03′25″N 108°42′04″W / 39.056944°N 108.701111°W / 39.056944; -108.701111 ( Rim Rock Drive Historic Grand Junction
The longest highway in the state is Interstate 70 which has a span of 449.51 miles (723.42 km) that runs west to east across the state, serving Grand Junction, Denver, Aurora, and Limon. Interstate 270, I-70's only auxiliary route in Colorado, is the shortest interstate highway in the state, spanning about 7 miles (11 km).
The Utah State Road Commission took over US 40 from Kimball Junction to Colorado in 1910 and 1911, [25] and assigned the SR-6 designation to this route by the mid-1920s. [26] In late 1926, the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) assigned the designation of US 40 to this cross-state route, consisting of most of SR-4 and all ...
Independence Monument is a 5,739-foot-elevation (1,749 meter) sandstone pillar located in Colorado National Monument, in Mesa County of western Colorado, United States. [1] This iconic 450-foot-high landmark is situated one mile southeast of the monument's visitor center , and 9 miles (14 km) west of the community of Grand Junction , where it ...