All images and text © Kevin Moloney


A crow takes flight from a fence alongside U.S. Highway 666 south of Cortez, Colo., below Ute Mountain.



Clouds reflect in the windows of an abandoned gas station in Dove Creek, Colo., along U.S. Highway 666.



Dolores County deputy sheriff Tom Halper patrols a peaceful stretch of U.S. highway 666 in southwestern Colorado. According to Halper, there has been only one fatality on his stretch of the road in 9 years.



Navajo tribal queen Patricia Johnson stands alongside a yet-unveiled sign for U.S. Highway 491 -- the replacement number for former route 666 -- near the town of Shiprock, N.M. The volcanic peak for which the town is named appears at rear. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, on behalf of the Navajo nation, petitioned to rename the 77-year-old road to remove any diabolical connotations.



New Mexico governor Bill Richardson greets members of the Navajo tribe alongside a freshly-unveiled sign for U.S. Highway 491 near the town of Shiprock, N.M.



Colorado Department of Transportation worker T.W. Witt changes U.S. Highway 666 signs after the three states through which the highway runs petitioned the federal government to change the number. The double signs will be up for two years to wait out the regular map cycle and to avoid confusion among drivers. The number 491 was picked because there are no state roads with the number in the three states through which former 666 passes, and because it links Interstate 40 in Gallup, N.M. with U.S. Rt. 191 in Monticello, Utah.


All images and text © Kevin Moloney

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