The San Juan Skyway circles 372 km through the Colorado Rockies, over passes above 3,000 m and through old silver towns like Ouray and Silverton. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The road loops through the San Juan Mountains, climbing three passes above 3,000 m and running through Ouray and Silverton, two towns built on the same silver rushes that first cut roads into these mountains. Ouray, ringed by peaks on three sides in a natural rock amphitheater, was named for the Ute chief and incorporated in 1876; the setting earned it the nickname Switzerland of America not long after.

Silverton, founded in 1874, grew to two thousand people and four hundred buildings within a decade as its mines shipped over a million dollars of silver a year by 1885. The narrow gauge railroad built in 1881 and 1882 to carry that ore down to the smelters in Durango still runs the same line today, a working train older than the road that now runs beside it.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Blue Ridge Parkway, Cabot Trail and Going-to-the-Sun Road.

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