State Highway 110 (SH 110) is a
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either Route number, numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered ...
in
Silverton, Colorado
Silverton is a statutory town that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. The town is located in a remote part of the western San Juan Mountains, a ...
. SH 110's western terminus is at
U.S. Route 550
U.S. Route 550 (US 550) is a spur of U.S. Highway 50 that runs from Bernalillo, New Mexico to Montrose, Colorado in the western United States. The section from Silverton, Colorado, Silverton to Ouray, Colorado, Ouray is frequently called ...
(US 550) in
Silverton, and the eastern terminus is at the
CDOT maintenance yard.
Route description
The route begins at
US 550 in
Silverton and runs for
to its terminus at a
CDOT maintenance yard.
History
The route was established in the 1920s, when it began at
US 550 in
Silverton and headed north to
Howardsville. SH 110 was extended north to
Eureka
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* Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
* Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem
Eureka or Ureka may also refer to:
History
* Eureka Rebellion, an 1854 g ...
by 1938. The northern terminus was moved to
Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British politican, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party.
In a career lasting over 60 years, he ...
in 1961. Except for the left today, the entire route was deleted north of Silverton in 2003; signage was removed along the entire route. On November 24, 2006, CDOT no longer called SH 110 a real part of the state highway system; SH 110 still exists.
Major intersections
See also
*
List of state highways in Colorado
The state highways of Colorado are a system of public paved roads funded and maintained by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) in the U.S. state of Colorado. These are state highways, which are typically abbreviated SH. The numbered ...
References
External links
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110
110 may refer to:
*110 (number), natural number
*AD 110, a year
*110 BC, a year
*110 film, a cartridge-based film format used in still photography
* 110 (MBTA bus), Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus route
*110 (song), 2019 song by Cap ...
Transportation in San Juan County, Colorado
State highways in the United States shorter than one mile