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Black Bear Road or Black Bear Pass, and officially Forest Service Road 648, is a dirt road that starts from the Шаблон:Convert summit of Red Mountain Pass on U.S. Highway 550 (between Ouray and Silverton) to Telluride, Colorado.[1][2][3] The road crests at Black Bear Pass, elevation Шаблон:Convert, and descends over a set of switchbacks as it navigates the heights above Telluride.[1] The road passes Bridal Veil Falls, the highest waterfall in Colorado.[1] In 1975, the road was the subject of a spoken-word song and album of the same title by country musician C. W. McCall.[4]

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In this aerial photo facing west, Telluride is at center, surrounded by mountains on three sides. Black Bear Road traverses the mountains from US-550, visible as a line in the valley at bottom.

Black Bear Road is open a few months of the year, from late summer (usually the last week of July) to early fall.[1][3][5] The road is traveled only downhill from Red Mountain Pass — except for the annual Jeeper's Jamboree in which travel is reversed for one day only. The start of the trail was formerly marked along U.S. 550 with a sign that read:[1]

TELLURIDE ——>
CITY OF GOLD
12 MILES - 2 HOURS
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE
CRAZY TO DRIVE THIS
ROAD - BUT IT HELPS

JEEPS ONLY

After repeated thefts of the sign, the local authorities stopped replacing it.[6]

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