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Silverton is on the San Juan Skyway.
Silverton is the northern terminus of the Million-Dollar Highway (photograph; 37KB).
Silverton is also the northern terminus of the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Photograph (25KB).
You have to take a very short minor and obvious diversion off US550 to run into Silverton. This is well worth doing. You can usually easily park in the main street.
Silverton is very much an old-time western town, very touristy but in an honest way and well worth a look. It is most definitely not a ghost town, although the number of visitors rises and falls dramatically as trains arrive and depart.
The town is small, parking is no problem and you can easily wander round on foot. A brief stop is highly recommended, especially when a train is due in or out. The train stops on a railway line which runs down the middle of one of the streets.
The town's name comes from the fact that silver was mined in the area. The silver mining was the reason that the railroad was built and the town created.
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