{"id":43267,"date":"2020-03-08T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T22:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63630"},"modified":"2020-03-08T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T22:25:42","slug":"rockslide-closes-us-40-in-mount-harris-canyon-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/rockslide-closes-us-40-in-mount-harris-canyon-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockslide closes US 40 in Mount Harris Canyon \u2018indefinitely\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 A rockslide closed U.S. Highway 40 east of the Yampa Valley Regional Airport around 1 p.m. Sunday, March 8. The highway is closed in both directions, and authorities currently do not have an estimate of when it will reopen.<\/p>\n<p>The rockslide is in Mount Harris Canyon, near mile marker 116 and close to the intersection of U.S. 40 and Routt County Road 52.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities reported an unstable hillside, with rocks still falling or in danger of falling. Law enforcement and transportation officials are working to turn around traffic in both directions and contact the airport and airlines to let them know travel into Steamboat is blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are suggesting travelers use Routt County roads&nbsp;27 and 33&nbsp;as alternate routes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Kevin Booth, director of the Yampa Valley Regional Airport, shuttles have been rerouted onto the alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Those routes take about twice as long, he said, and a little more if the drivers elect to stay on the pavement and go through Oak Creek.<\/p>\n<p>A United Airlines airplane that was scheduled to leave at 2:55 p.m. delayed their boarding time to allow for the shuttles to arrive, Booth said.<\/p>\n<p>Several more planes are scheduled to depart and arrive today, he said. If anyone doesn\u2019t think they can make their flight, Booth advises them to contact the airlines.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">**IMPORTANT**<br \/>Rock slides are causing a closure of H40 in Mt Harris canyon (mp 115-117) Alternate route is RCR 33 out of Steamboat Springs to RCR 27 to Hayden.unknown reopening at this time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColoradoDOT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ColoradoDOT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSP_Craig?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CSP_Craig<\/a> are on scene. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKe0tLYkOr\">pic.twitter.com\/WKe0tLYkOr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CSP Craig (@CSP_Craig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSP_Craig\/status\/1236741129686487040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 A rockslide closed U.S. Highway 40 east of the Yampa Valley Regional Airport around 1 p.m. Sunday, March 8. The highway is closed in both directions, and authorities currently do not have an estimate of when it will reopen. The rockslide is in Mount Harris Canyon, near mile marker 116 and close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 15:44:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}