[MtnClimber]

The detour around the closure takes about 4 hours.

[kevslisababy]

Gotta be caused by “Climate Change/Global Warming”...

[catnipman]

This is EXTREMELY bad news for Colorado and even the nation.

I-70 is the ONLY major route into Colorado from the West, which means difficulties in obtaining goods and food products from the Pacific coast states.

It also bad news for the nation as I-70 is one of only a couple major east-west coast-to-coast routes across the middle part of the country.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4535956,-104.8701856,5z?hl=en

[ClearCase_guy]

Great chapter in “Atlas Shrugged” when the tunnel through the Rockies becomes inaccessible.

[hinckley buzzard]

We took a road trip through here last summer, beautiful stretch of highway. But mountains will be mountains I guess.

[Lorianne]

That is a beautiful stretch of highway, but very precarious. Sheer rock walls very close to the roadway.

[Lorianne]

[Lorianne]

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14633690
Has photos

[SueRae]

Ouch. I visited Aspen one October, via Independence Pass. Drove out to Glenwood via I-70 and back to Denver via I-70..the Pass closed 2 weeks into October. Not a road I’d want to count on for a commute. It’s a beautiful spot, though.

[dware]

They are usually pretty good with getting these slides cleaned up. Past experience says the corridor should reopen within a couple days, even if it is just single lane.

[lurk]

The canyon is vertical rocks on both sides. A road through it is just playing a game of come-get-me with nature.

[driftless2]

The wife and I drove through I-70 about ten years ago. About fifty miles west of Denver we were held up for an hour by a delay which was not explained to us. That night we stayed in Fort Collins and read the news in the morning.

The delay was caused by a boulder that rolled onto I-70, landed on a car, and killed the driver. We haven't driven I-70 since despite having taken numerous trips out west.