Glenwood Canyon Rock Slide : Glenwood Springs, Colorado – rock slide gaping holes in the bridge and left huge boulders on the highway 70, and the closure of a 17-mile stretch of highway in Colorado State Bank.
Slide occurred around midnight Sunday near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon, a deep, narrow gap, about 110 miles west of Denver, Colorado, said the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
No injuries or damage to vehicles were reported.
And closed all roads east from Glenwood Springs to the town of Dotsero. Up to 25,000 cars per day travel this section of the highway, said ministry spokeswoman Stacey Stegman.
Slide blocked the main road between the airport in Denver and Aspen Skiing Co. ’s four Aspen resorts area, but a company spokeswoman said Meredith McKee resort operations did not stop.
Officials did not say when the highway will be closed. Because of the rugged terrain, and getting shorter adds about 200 miles across the Flat Tops wilderness area.
The largest crater in the road was 10 feet by 20 feet. About 20 in the rocks ranging from three to 10 feet long were scattered on the highway, with the largest weighing 66 tons, officials said.
Some rocks would have blown up with explosives before they were taken away, “said Stegman.
1995 of the rock slide I – 70 in Glenwood Canyon, killing three people.
Slice on the Thanksgiving holiday in 2004, and closed the highway required worth nearly $ 700,000 of repairs. No one was hurt because the road had been closed for an accident not related to them.
Union Pacific Railroad said tracks across the valley were not affected. Tracks carrying freight trains and Amtrak’s California Zephyr.
Monday editions of the Glenwood Springs Post Independent The New York Times Aspen was delivered in late slide because the balance between their towns and printing factory in the town of Gypsum.
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