Trail Ridge Road closes to through travel for the season 

Right now, Monday, Oct. 24, Path Ridge Highway in Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park formally closed for the season to by journey.  Many fashionable driving locations, together with Bear Lake Highway, Moraine Park, Horseshoe Park and the part of Path Ridge Highway alongside the Kawuneeche Valley, are all open.   

Path Ridge Highway just isn’t designed to be an all-season street, with 11 miles above 11,500 ft, few guard rails and no shoulders.  Winter situations of drifting snow, excessive winds and below- freezing temperatures happen above 10,000 ft.  Path Ridge Highway is at the moment closed at Many Parks Curve on the east aspect and Colorado River Trailhead on the west aspect. Closure factors on the street might fluctuate this fall; nevertheless the street is closed to by journey for the season.   

Path Ridge Highway usually opens the final week in Might, climate allowing. This 12 months, Path Ridge Highway opened on Might 27. 

Outdated Fall River Highway closed for the season to autos on Oct. 3.  Path Ridge Highway and Outdated Fall River Highway will stay open to bicycles and leashed pets by Nov. 30. Leashed pets and bicycles are solely allowed on the street, not on aspect trails. On Dec. 1, each of those roads will revert to “winter path standing,” which implies that bicycles and leashed pets are now not permitted past the closed gates however pedestrians, snowshoers and skiers are.   

For extra details about Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park, please go to http://www.nps.gov/romo or name the park’s Info Workplace at 970-586-1206.