Essay by John Mattingly
Local Sites – February 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
IF YOU’RE GOING to the Sand Dunes National Park and have a spare 30 minutes, you might consider turning east off Highway 17 at Road AA (about 5 miles south of where 17 splits off from 285). Road AA is also known as Mirage Lane, pronounced Marriage Lane by locals. It’s never been clear to me whether this is a slurred mispronunciation of Mirage that became customary, or if an unusual number of weddings took place along this county road.