{"id":803940,"date":"2020-02-07T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378636"},"modified":"2020-02-07T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:28:48","slug":"i-70-closed-along-mountain-corridor-as-winter-storm-hammers-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/i-70-closed-along-mountain-corridor-as-winter-storm-hammers-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"I-70 closed along mountain corridor as winter storm hammers Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/StormAlertWebCard-SDN.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 are closed throughout the mountain corridor from Dotsero west of Vail to Silverthrone on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The westbound lanes are closed at Herman Gulch, 3 miles east of the Eisenhower\/Johnson Memorial Tunnels, for avalanche control, and \u201cextensive\u201d closures for avalanche mitigation are expected throughout the morning and afternoon, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravelers heading to the mountains this morning will see&nbsp;multi-hour waits&nbsp;as crews blast avalanche paths and remove the resulting debris,\u201d according to a post by CDOT. \u201cIt is strongly advised that traffic wait in Denver or other locations until the roadway has officially reopened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For stranded travelers, an emergency shelter has been set up at the Silverthrone Recreation Center, 430 Rainbow Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Summit School District announced Thursday night that school would be canceled for the day Friday to protect the safety of students and staff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/eastbound-i-70-closed-along-mountain-corridor-as-winter-storm-hammers-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 are closed throughout the mountain corridor from Dotsero west of Vail to Silverthrone on Friday morning. The westbound lanes are closed at Herman Gulch, 3 miles east of the Eisenhower\/Johnson Memorial Tunnels, for avalanche control, and \u201cextensive\u201d closures for avalanche mitigation are expected throughout the morning and afternoon, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 10:14:42","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}