53.1 miles:
46 minutes
Along the gently winding US 550 are grassy, wide-open plains speckled with brush. The scenery has a backdrop of tall peach- and clay-colored mesas that are dotted with shrubs and occasionally edge the road with high cliffs. North of Cuba near the route's endpoint is the Continental Divide.
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