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Million Dollar Hwy Climb

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Million Dollar Highway, Ironton, Ouray County, Colorado, United States
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Climb Profile

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Climb Stats

Combined metric and imperial stats for quick route planning.

Climb categoryCategory 3
Distance4.78 km / 2.97 miles
Elevation gain248.6 m / 816 ft
Average gradient5.2%
Maximum gradient22.3%
Elevation high3,205.86 m / 10,518 ft
Elevation low2,957.35 m / 9,703 ft
Climb difficulty score24,851.84

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Climb Rank

How does this climb compare against every other climb in the world?

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This climb ranks 161,542nd out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

🧮

Ranked as the 10,826th most difficult cycling climb of all 337,250 climbs in United States.

📉

Places 1,281st out of 13,296 cycling climbs in Colorado.

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Get your legs ready, this is the 6th most difficult cycling climb (out of 33 climbs) in Ouray County.

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This is the second most difficult cycling climb in Ironton.

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