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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Colorado Flooding & Rocky Mountain National Park | |
msoomro:
I70 is fine, except there is major tunnel construction a few miles east of Idaho Springs. Several info signs announce the average speed that the traffic is moving at the entrance to the construction. During the week it's not much of a deal, but on weekends it can add a half hour or more to the trip. As for the floods, the higher you go the less there is. By the time you reach the continental divide you are well out of the flood affected area, the worst of the damage is on the eastern edge of the front range, where the canyons pop out of the mountainsides, but the damage range is enormous, from south of Colorado Springs to the Wyoming border. I do believe going west out of Denver on I70 is fine. But if you are going to do a loop and return via Colorado Springs, your only road is Hwy 24 (to I25), and that road (24) just west of C.S. has been closed frequently due to mud slides and debris off the Waldo Canyon wildfire burn scar. If there is no rain there is no problem, however if there is rain the state doesn't even wait for debris to form, they just close the road immediately. -Jim
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