State Highway 69 (SH 69) is an state highway in the US state of

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...

. SH 69's northern terminus is at U.S. Route 50 (US 50) in Texas Creek, and the southern terminus is at Interstate 25 Business (I-25 Bus.) north of

Walsenburg The City of Walsenburg is the Statutory City that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 3,049 at the 2020 census, down from 3,068 in 2010. History Walsenbur ...

Route description

SH 69 starts at a junction with I-25 Bus. just north of

. The highway heads northwest over Long Saddle Pass and Promontory Divide Pass to Westcliffe and ends at the Texas Creek junction with US 50 between

Cañon City A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cu ...

and Salida.

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