'Satan's Highway' has devilish name problem

By Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News
February 17, 2003

You could say Colorado has a "devil-may-care" attitude to a name change for U.S. 666.

The 194-mile ribbon of road from New Mexico to Utah through southwestern Colorado carries the unfortunate nickname of "Satan's Highway." That's because "666" is the "number of the beast" in the Bible's Book of Revelation.

The governor of New Mexico wants to widen the road and change its number. Stacey Stegman, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said the state isn't standing in the way of New Mexico's request, although it's not a burning controversy here.

"The problem is the road is hilly and narrow with a lot of blind spots," said S.U. Mahesh, spokesman for the New Mexico Highway and Transportation Department. "It mixes fast-flowing traffic with slow-moving local traffic.

"And the name doesn't help."

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