All photos on this page courtesy Michael Summa.


WB in 1983, with an original BGS that had the old sequential exit numbering scheme on it along with the original shields. That was Exit 5. US 50 used to stay with US 6 here, but for some reason it joins I-70 while 6 stays on the surface.

One EB photo from way out west, 1984.


WB in 1979 from Vail westward and off the Exit 171 ramp. As you'll see on this page, it's rare for the US routes to be signed along with the Interstate, especially this one. And it's even rarer for it to still be a cutout by then. I believe the covered town is Avon - later exits were probably judged to work better. US 24 used to head west with US 6 out to US 50, but now it ends here where US 6 drops off of I-70 for a bit.


Great buttons, but no location, taken in the mid-1980's (so I don't have a year either). It's west of Denver, possibly in Vail - there aren't a lot of exits on I-70 that aren't just straight diamond ramps. If it helps you find it for me, there is/was a McDonald's inside the ramp ("was" is more likely).


EB Exit 198 and 205 ramps, 1988 and 1983.


EB at Exit 216 as US 6 returns after breaking free to use the old Loveland Pass, and then facing westward a short distance east of there. Although the US 6 sign isn't button copy, it has the old details of a numeral low in the sign and a tapered arrow. The second sign shows that US 40 has been along for the ride the whole time, making the second photo a triplex.


From the Bakerville diamond at Exit 221 (no routes on the ground, but US 6 is with I-70) to C-103 WB leaving I-70 at Exit 240, both taken in 1988. In the background of the second photo's wooden sign is the I-70 EB onramp sign to Denver, missing both US 6 and 40.


Old shields and signs WB in the Idaho Springs area, starting in the mid-1980's. The flippy sign at Exit 234 (taken in 1988) gives trucks a chance to use either US 6 or US 40 - the 40 exit comes up soon, whereas US 6 is another 20 miles. The last photo is a little blurry but it's also the oldest photo in the run, dating to 1979 and showing original button copy from when this was Exit 44 (patched to the new number).


Photos off the route itself, all in 1988: Heading north from Exit 238, old US 6/40 (now Business I-70) at the old end of C-103 in Idaho Springs, north from Exit 248 at US 40, and


EB ditching first US 6 and then US 40, with the last photo at the bottom of the Exit 254 ramp as US 40 turns left and leaves I-70 for Denver. All are again from 1988.

Onto US 6 alone
Continue east of Genesee Park on I-70/US 40
Onto US 40 alone

Into Utah on I-70
Exit 26 to US 50
Exit 171 to US 24
Exit 205 to C-9
Exit 244 to C-119
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