The highway then turns due east, intersecting SH 71 in Hawley, before terminating at US 50 in La Junta.

The route was established in the 1920s, when it began at the Utah state line near Dove Creek and went east to Walsenburg on today's Interstate 25.

By 1936, a section was added pushing SH 10's terminus east to La Junta.

The entire section from the Utah border to Walsenburg, the original alignment of the route, was relinquished in 1968.

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