where is the "devil's highway"?

Sometimes I see ghosts on our nation's highways. But it's because I need to put down the Monsters and get some sleep.

 

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U.S. Route 491[/TH]
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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]Devil's Highway[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]Map of the Four Corners with US 491 highlighted in red
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[TH="colspan: 2, align: center"]Route information[/TH]
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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]Auxiliary route of US 91[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]Maintained by NMDOT, CDOT, UDOT[/TD]
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[TH="align: right"]Length:[/TH]
[TD]193.930 mi[SUP][2][/SUP] (312.100 km)[/TD]
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[TH="align: right"]History:[/TH]
[TD]1926–2003 as US 666
2003–present as US 491[SUP][1][/SUP][/TD]
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[TH="colspan: 2, align: center"]Major junctions[/TH]
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[TH="align: right"]South end:[/TH]
[TD] I‑40 / NM 602 in Gallup, NM[/TD]
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[TD] US 64 in Shiprock, NM
US 160 in Cortez, CO[/TD]
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[TH="align: right"]North end:[/TH]
[TD] US 191 in Monticello, UT[/TD]
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[TH="colspan: 2, align: center"]Location[/TH]
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[TH="align: right"]States:[/TH]
[TD]New Mexico, Colorado, Utah[/TD]
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[TH="colspan: 2, align: center"]Highway system[/TH]
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• United States Numbered Highways

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• Bannered
• Divided
• Replaced

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[TD="align: left"]← SR-320[/TD]
[TD="width: 10%, align: center"]UT[/TD]
[TD="width: 45%, align: right"]US-6 →[/TD]
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[TD="width: 45%, align: left"]← E-470[/TD]
[TD="width: 10%, align: center"]CO[/TD]
[TD="width: 45%, align: right"]US 550 →[/TD]
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[TD="width: 45%, align: left"]← NM 485[/TD]
[TD="width: 10%, align: center"]NM[/TD]
[TD="width: 45%, align: right"]NM 494 →[/TD]
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U.S. Route 491 (US 491) is a north–south U.S. Highwayserving the Four Corners region of the United States. One of the newest designations in the U.S. Highway System, it was created in 2003 as a renumbering of U.S. Route 666 (US 666). With the 666 designation, this road was nicknamed the "Devil's Highway" because of the belief by many Christians that 666 is the Number of the Beast.[SUP][1][/SUP] This Satanic connotation, combined with a high fatality rate along the New Mexico portion, convinced some people the highway was cursed. The problem was compounded by persistent sign theft. These factors led to two efforts to renumber the highway, first by officials in Arizona, later in New Mexico. There have been safety improvement projects in recent years, and fatality rates have subsequently decreased.[SUP][3][/SUP]

 

It used to be numbered U.S. Hwy 666. It has now been changed depending on which state it's in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491

I see Wooly beat me to it by a few seconds.

 

US highway 666 that starts in Utah and extends through Colorado and into New Mexico.

Google it.

 

how true!!!

 

Nice reply Wooly.... pretty quick on the trigger. Ha

 

666 is my favorite number. I wAs in Hell, MI on June 6, 2006 or 6-6-6. I got a coffee cup and certificate, sadly, they were out of t shirts.

 

I think I have been on it before .
it runs through the Moab desert right ? Or am I thinking of a different hwy ?

 

its the highway that leads to my ex-MIL back door!