Planning A Trip To Estes Park This Year?
Long time lurker here, decided to join up to post an update for anyone thinking about a trip to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Come on out!!! I was up there yesterday, the town of Es...
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UPDATE:
Yes, It's the RiverVIEW campground west of Loveland that was severely damaged. They are not open, doesn't look like they will be opening, guess they have a LOT of work to do.http://www.riverviewrv.com/
RiverBEND is one of the small ones in the canyon and it was completely destroyed, with the exception of the main building and some cabins. http://www.riverbendcampground.co/
US34 up the Big Thompson is practically as it was prior to the flooding, which is to say it's paved surface all the way, the guardrails are all in place, there's no narrowing of the roadway -- except for the damage that parallels the roadway, one would be hard pressed to see that the road had ever been damaged. US34 is the route of choice to Estes Park for RV travel.
Coincidentally, one of the news stations did a report on the status of US36 from Lyons to Estes Park. There's a LOT of construction going on there. A scheduled 3 hour closure on Monday turned into a 24 hour closure, due to the size of the rocks that came down. There are going to be a total of 20 3-4 hour closures of the road, with a weeks notice for each one, so this looks to be a very protracted reconstruction. The news report was talking in terms of years rather than months for the construction to be complete. For now and the foreseeable future, it looks like they will be using pilot cars through the construction, and there were significant delays on both sides. Most of this is in the Pinewood Springs area. The roadway is be relocated in many areas, unlike on US34 where it was rebuilt and repaved as it was.
Yes, It's the RiverVIEW campground west of Loveland that was severely damaged. They are not open, doesn't look like they will be opening, guess they have a LOT of work to do.http://www.riverviewrv.com/
RiverBEND is one of the small ones in the canyon and it was completely destroyed, with the exception of the main building and some cabins. http://www.riverbendcampground.co/
US34 up the Big Thompson is practically as it was prior to the flooding, which is to say it's paved surface all the way, the guardrails are all in place, there's no narrowing of the roadway -- except for the damage that parallels the roadway, one would be hard pressed to see that the road had ever been damaged. US34 is the route of choice to Estes Park for RV travel.
Coincidentally, one of the news stations did a report on the status of US36 from Lyons to Estes Park. There's a LOT of construction going on there. A scheduled 3 hour closure on Monday turned into a 24 hour closure, due to the size of the rocks that came down. There are going to be a total of 20 3-4 hour closures of the road, with a weeks notice for each one, so this looks to be a very protracted reconstruction. The news report was talking in terms of years rather than months for the construction to be complete. For now and the foreseeable future, it looks like they will be using pilot cars through the construction, and there were significant delays on both sides. Most of this is in the Pinewood Springs area. The roadway is be relocated in many areas, unlike on US34 where it was rebuilt and repaved as it was.
