Expect Heavy Traffic Heading To The High Country This Holiday Weekend
More Coloradans are heading to the high country for the holiday weekend, which means traffic will be heavier than normal along I-70.
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More Coloradans are heading to the high country for the holiday weekend, which means traffic will be heavier than normal along I-70.
The closure was lifted about 30 minutes later, at around 1 p.m.
Eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 between Frisco and Loveland Pass were closed Saturday afternoon. The Colorado Department of Transportation says there are multiple vehicles which spun out on the highway.
Winter driving conditions may have contributed to multiple crashes that kept portions of Interstate 70 closed periodically on Thursday night.
Drivers in the high country finally caught a break in the weather Thursday afternoon, but for those who had to stay the night Wednesday, many ended up digging their cars out to get anywhere Thursday.
Wintery weather moved in across Colorado's high country, and the inevitable happened at around 1:45 p.m.
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Drivers planning on traveling Interstate 70 in Eagle County on Tuesday should be prepared for a longer trip.
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Both directions of Interstate 70 in Glenwood Springs are currently closed as of 3 p.m. on Wednesday for a multi-vehicle pileup.
A morning avalanche mitigation operation was one of the first closures along Interstate 70 westbound in Vail, but it would not be the last.
Eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 at Colorado Mills Parkway were closed Sunday evening.
A section of Loveland Pass was closed Sunday afternoon for safety concerns. The Colorado Department of Transportation closed the pass in both directions between Interstate 70 and Montezuma Road.
The Colorado Department of Transportation issued a safety closure for both east and westbound lanes of Interstate 70 on Sunday morning.
Westbound lanes of Interstate 70 on the Eastern Plains are closed due to a crash.
Interstate 70 has closed, and reopened, in multiple locations in the high country on Friday morning -- and the situation was changing every few minutes.
Westbound lanes of I-70 reopened after being closed on Thursday night from Copper Mountain over Vail Pass due to extreme weather conditions.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos is the driver who crashed an out-of-control semi truck into stopped traffic on Interstate 70 in Lakewood in 2019, killing four people and injuring several others.
The Eisenhower and Johnson Tunnels were a part of a blackout on Sunday, Dec. 12 which caused Colorado Department of Transportation operators to close the tunnel for safety reasons.
Nearly 100 acres burned in a grass fire along Interstate 70 in Arapahoe County on Tuesday.
Semi driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos has been sentenced to 110 years in prison for the fiery crash on I-70 that killed four people near the Colorado Mills Mall in 2019.
The widow of one of the victims of a 2019 crash that killed four people on Interstate 70 says she'll speak at the sentencing hearing for the driver.
Both directions of Interstate 70 were closed Sunday afternoon at the Eisenhower Johnson Tunnels for a reported power outage.
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