LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - U.S. 34 in Colorado will reopen this week for the summer season.
The Daily Reporter-Herald reports (https://bit.ly/2qcxjG6 ) the road will reopen at 4 p.m. Thursday between Loveland and Estes Park.
About half of the permanent flood repairs have been completed on the road, which includes 38,000 dump truck loads of rock blasted off the canyon walls and a new path cut through the mountain at an area devastated by floodwaters.
The 2013 floods obliterated sections of U.S. 34 west of Loveland, along with roads in other counties, cutting off access for rescue crews so much that it became the second-largest air rescue emergency in the United States behind Hurricane Katrina. A $280 million permanent reconstruction project to make the road more resilient has been in the works ever since.
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Information from: Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald, https://www.reporterherald.com/
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