Cottonwood Pass closed for winter season
Snowy road in Colorado.
Cottonwood Pass in Eagle County from Gypsum to the Roaring Fork Valley is now closed for the remainder of the winter season from mile marker 2.5 in Gypsum to mile marker 12.5. The road will reopen in April 2023 or when conditions allow. An announcement will be made when Cottonwood Pass is set to reopen. For more information, contact the Eagle County Road & Bridge Department at 970-328-3540.
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Red Canyon Road closed for 90 days
Red Canyon Road closed
Garfield County has extended a closure of Red Canyon Road (County Road 115) for an additional 90 days due to dangerous conditions on the primitive, steep stretch between Highway 82 and the Spring Valley area. “We had a weather event where it started to rain and then it froze, after which we had snow fall on top of it,” said Garfield County Road and Bridge Director Wyatt Keesbery to the Board of County Commissioners. “This made it very, very icy. The condition of that road even in the summertime is not good.” CR 115 features a steep grade, narrow roadway,
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Rock slide – road reopened
Update August 19, 2013 JQS Road reopens after rock slide cleared SILT, Colo. – The Bureau of Land Management has reopened the JQS Road north of Rifle, Colo., which had been closed since Friday, August 16 due to a rock slide. The slide was cleared this weekend. The JQS Road is one of two public access routes to the top of the Roan Plateau. The rockslide was discovered Thursday, close to the base of the plateau about 5 miles west of Colorado Highway 13, where the road begins climbing the steep cliff.   SILT, Colo. – The Bureau of Land
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