Your Guide to the San Juan Skyway Road Trip Reader s Digest Editors
There’s gold in these hills
The locals call their homeland Colorful Colorado, and a drive around the San Juan Skyway loop proves the aptness of the nickname. As you climb from dusty lowlands to snowy peaks, you ll see nearly every shade possible in nature s kaleidoscopic palette, from creamy sands and rusty bluffs to multi-hued alpine meadows. Winding through a section of the Rocky Mountains from New Mexico into the southwest corner of Colorado, the San Juan mountains were the site of Colorado’s gold and silver mining boom in the early history of the state.
Silverton undersheriff unbroken after several close calls
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Steve Lowrance has been shot twice, survived violent car crash
Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 5:03 AM Steve Lowrance, undersheriff for the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office in Silverton, in front of the historic San Juan County Courthouse. Lowrance has been shot twice and in a near-fatal car crash while serving in law enforcement, but it hasn’t broken his resolve to help others. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald Steve Lowrance, undersheriff for the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office in Silverton, in front of the historic San Juan County Courthouse. Lowrance has been shot twice and in a near-fatal car crash while serving in law enforcement, but it hasn’t broken his resolve to help others.