U.S. Route 666

Devil's Highway
Length:	While counting, I got eaten by grues.
Formed:	2003
Decomd.:	Never.
south end:	Gallup, NM
Major junctions:	None that I thought of.
north end:	Monticello, UT, supposedly, but it continues from there
Major cities:	Gallup, NM
System:	U.S. Routes
Note: Prepare for grue encounters.

U.S. Route 666 is one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was created in 2003 as a re-numbering of U.S. Route 491. Wikipedia says that 666 was renumbered from 491, but that's a blatant lie directed at students who do not know where to search for good information.

Highway History

One of the many signs on US 666.

Pre-666

The original idea for U.S. Route 491 came from the following assignment of a 1st grader:

Write the following:

$2^{2}$ = $4$

$3^{2}$ = $9$

$1^{2}$ = $1$
HOLY SHIT! I've just found a perfect number for the next highway! 491!

The Rename

On May 31, 2003, the Department of Transportation submitted a proposal to change the name of the highway to 'US 666'. The reasons in the proposal were as follows:

• WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation's president does not like prime-numbered highways because a common road trip game was to prime factorize the highway number,

• WHEREAS, 491 is a prime number because it has only two prime factors,

• OR DOES IT? Let me work... $492=2*x.x={\frac {492}{2}}=246.246=2*...{\text{Oops, realized that I was doing 492 instead of 491...}}$

• GET ON TOPIC!!!

Nobody cared about the statements. They were all friends to the author of the proposal, so they accepted it. And then...

Post-rename

The route is now called "666". "666" is significant to many Christian people as the "number of the beast", however, the highway is far from dangerous. It passes through multiple sacred rocks.

Route description

The map is supposed to remind you of a person looking up at the road. No other route specifications were provided. However, the people at Uncyclopedia have compiled this summary below:

New Mexico

Route ends at Interstate 40. We start driving across the road.

Soon, the highway goes straight north-south. So boring. Until...

Colorado

I don't know if this even is north-south or east-west. Well, I'll go with north-south.

Utah

Wikipedia says the terminus is here, but it is not! It turns down into...

Arizona

Through the desert. Ends at a cul-de-sac blocked by Grues.

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