{"id":104473,"date":"2016-06-22T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T03:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/scenic-highways-help-colorado-make-top-10-list\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T03:12:12","slug":"scenic-highways-help-colorado-make-top-10-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/scenic-highways-help-colorado-make-top-10-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenic highways help Colorado make Top 10 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7c512e70-d6ef-4f9b-944b-ec1634ac66b1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7c512e70-d6ef-4f9b-944b-ec1634ac66b1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7c512e70-d6ef-4f9b-944b-ec1634ac66b1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7c512e70-d6ef-4f9b-944b-ec1634ac66b1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1228\" alt=\"Colorado was ranked eighth in the nation for summer road trips, in part because of our skyways. And two are anchored in the Southwest \u2013 the San Juan Skyway and Tracks Across Borders.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado was ranked eighth in the nation for summer road trips, in part because of our skyways. And two are anchored in the Southwest \u2013 the San Juan Skyway and Tracks Across Borders.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Lisa Schwantes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The study evaluated the 50 states based on driving and lodging costs, road conditions and safety, and fun and scenic attractions.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s crumbling infrastructure had us 20th on the second metric, but Colorado shone in others, including scenic byways and weather.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon is apparently the best state for road trips, followed by Nevada, Utah, North Carolina, Minnesota, Washington and Idaho. Rounding out the top 10 are Louisiana and Vermont. Ranking 50th on the list is Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>So, Nevada not only beat Colorado \u2013 but comes in second? While it had the lowest rate for camping, Nevada came in 46th on both most car thefts per capita and fewest national park units per square mile. Must be the nightlife options that killed it, because, hey, Las Vegas and Reno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado was ranked eighth in the nation for summer road trips, in part because of our skyways. And two are anchored in the Southwest \u2013 the San Juan Skyway and Tracks Across Borders.Courtesy of Lisa Schwantes The study evaluated the 50 states based on driving and lodging costs, road conditions and safety, and fun and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5843],"tags":[3161,120,13,810,421],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-104473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living","tag-auto-trends","tag-colorado","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-tourism-recreation","tag-tourism-and-leisure"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104473"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=104473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}