I-70 closed east of Utah in Clorado.
One of our usual Winter drives into Denver, CO is closed due to a rock slide. This may be a long time closure and the shortest by-pass will add about 140 miles to your trip. Rock slide on I-70 in Colorado
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- I used to drive through there at least once a year going between So. Cal and Boulder, it was under construction for the entire 10+ years.
Always a beautiful drive but always wondered about falling rocks especially after they "blew up" the side of the mountain before letting us pass. - That is not an unusual place for rockslides to occur. Reports are always that it will take a significant amount of time to reopen, and they always find a way to get traffic moving again in a reasonable amount of time.
The work will not be ideal, but better than the detour. - CDOT said it will be closed till Thursday then it will one lane only for both directions so they will alternate cars east and lead by a pilot car till it is fixed could be another week or more
- Holy smokes Batman - we were just driving back last Sunday. Glad the slide waited until Monday.
- Hope they have it cleared by August.
