Wikipedia:Peer review/List of scenic byways in Colorado/archive1

List of scenic byways in Colorado

I've listed this article for peer review because I am open to suggestions for improvement.

Thanks,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 23:09, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

A couple of immediate points:

1. By definition, all All-American Roads are National Scenic Byways. They're merely a subcategory of the other. To gain AAR status, a roadway must already be an NSB. That means those two sections would need to be combined.
2. According to National Scenic Byway, ordinarily NSBs (and therefore AARs) have to be state byways. There are exceptions. (Michigan has an NSB that is not a Pure Michigan Byway, although it is a National Forest Scenic Byway). On that basis, the NSB list should mostly be a subset of the state byway list (with differentiating details, see below).
   It looks like the two other federal agencies granting other byway designations have mostly added their designations to roadways with state-level byway status. All three BLM Back Country Byways are also state byways, and all 10 National Forest Scenic Byways are also state byways.

So on the basis of point #2, I would not have created this as a separate list. The existing List of Colorado Scenic and Historic Byways, if done properly should be sufficient. The biggest problem with that article is that it treated the federal and state designations as the same by confusing and conflating them, even to the point that it appeared that Colorado had designated byways outside of its territory in adjacent states or promulgated designations on multiple dates. Additionally, one should not assume that a byway that enjoys overlapping designations from different agencies has precisely the same name with all of them. Using Michigan's byways again as an example, what is called the "River Road National Scenic Byway" by the FHWA is the "River Road National Forest Scenic Byway" by USFS, and the "Automotive Heritage Trail All-American Road" is the "Woodward Avenue Recreational Heritage Route" or "Woodward Avenue Recreational Byway". So I'm currently suspicious that the listings here may not be technically correct based on the fact that the names are identical from list to list on this page.

So my recommendation is to redirect this article title to List of Colorado Scenic and Historic Byways and properly clean up and organize that listing using the feedback from the FLC and here. Imzadi 1979 → 08:18, 18 July 2022 (UTC)