Can I own one here
Owning one in Ouray County.
On your own land, yes
Owning a kei truck and working it on a ranch, a farm, a mine or private property does not depend on a road title. Some states still ask for a title or an off road registration.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use opens later. Colorado made kei vehicles a legal road class in 2025 and title and registration open on 1 January 2028.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. From 1 January 2028 Colorado names it a kei off-road vehicle, an off-highway vehicle under the Certificate of Title Act, titled at the county motor vehicle office.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Ouray County.
Roads open. Ouray County opens its county roads to registered OHVs with a licensed and insured driver, apart from paved roads closed by resolution, while Ridgway and the City of Ouray keep their streets closed and US 550 and CO 62 are crossing only.
In town Closed
- Closed Ridgway. No street is opened to OHVs. The code was searched for off-highway and OHV and Chapter 15 carries no OHV route. US 550 and CO 62 through town can never be named a route. Section 15-1-8 opens streets other than 550 and 62 only to electric vehicles that cannot pass 20 mph, which no kei truck is. Ridgway Municipal Code, Supplement 5, codified through Ordinance No. 05-2025 and current online to 4 May 2026, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Ouray. City streets, alleys and city property are closed to OHVs except crossings, routes the council names by resolution or ordinance (none found), events, emergencies, farm work, snow clearing and one link: from the lot west of Lots 10 to 12 of Block 1, straight across US 550, onto County Road 361. Ouray Municipal Code 14-9, Ordinance No. 8 of 2013 as amended by Ordinance No. 4 of 2018, read 28 October 2026
County roads Open
Public roads in unincorporated Ouray County, the primary and secondary roads on the official county road map of Resolution 2014-014, less the hard surfaced roads Resolution 2007-034 closes to OHVs. Colona is unincorporated, so this ordinance governs there. Resolution 2007-034 was not found online, so the paved roads it closes are not listed here. Ordinance 2021-01, signed and recorded 28 April 2021, keeping Resolution 2007-034 of 2 July 2007 in force, read 28 October 2026
State highways Crossings only
- US 550 and CO 62 are crossing only. Ouray's code names one crossing of US 550, from the lot west of Block 1 to County Road 361. C.R.S. 33-14.5-108.5 and Ouray Municipal Code 14-9-A-8, read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Ouray County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 800 road miles.
- The Port of Oakland, about 900 road miles.
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 1,200 road miles.
How to import a mini truck, step by step.
A newer off road truck never lands in California. It comes in through Tacoma or by way of Houston.
Trucks travel in containers, one to a 20 foot box with room for parts or three to a 40 foot box.
Road miles are an estimate, the straight line times 1.2.
The ground
Ouray County, counted.
Ouray County averages 127 inches of snow a year. Farms in Ouray County hold 10,922 acres of woodland. Ouray County has 116 farms and 49 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture.
Areas
The areas Ouray County is part of.
Importing a kei truck
The essentials, in short.
A truck under 25 can come in only as governed off road equipment, and only if its engine family held an EPA nonroad certificate for that model year. No kei engine family was certified for mini trucks before model year 2010, so a truck built after 31 October 2001 and before model year 2010 has no federal door until its 25th birthday.
Two lanes
A road truck must be 25 years old by its own build date. A newer truck comes in only as governed off road equipment with a certified engine.
The 25 percent duty
Every kei truck pays the 25 percent truck duty at the port, whatever its age.
The paperwork
The customs entry and the two federal declarations, DOT Form HS-7 and EPA Form 3520-1, travel with the truck to your title office.
The title
Keep every stamped paper with the truck. Your state title office asks to see them.
News for Colorado Colorado's kei vehicle class, and the two dates that matter
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