{"id":2445006,"date":"2019-06-05T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=307445"},"modified":"2019-06-05T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:56:32","slug":"colorado-hwy-145-will-be-rerouted-around-massive-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-hwy-145-will-be-rerouted-around-massive-boulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Hwy 145 will be rerouted around massive boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/AP19156556485442-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/AP19156556485442-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/AP19156556485442-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/AP19156556485442-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>An 8.5 million pound boulder rests next to Colorado State Highway 145 on May 27, 2019, after falling from nearly 1,000 feet from the nearby ridge and destroying the pavement between Cortez and Telluride.<\/strong><br \/><em>Hugh Carey\/Summit Daily News<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 A boulder the size of a house that crashed onto a southwestern Colorado state highway last month will stay put. State officials plan to reroute the highway around it \u2014 saving taxpayers money and possibly creating a tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday that Colorado will save about $200,000 by not blasting the 8.5 million pound boulder.<\/p>\n<p>The boulder was the largest in a rockslide that destroyed pavement on a stretch of Colorado Highway 145 near the town of Dolores on May 24.<\/p>\n<p>It will cost about $1.3 million to re-route the road, some of which will come from federal emergency funding.<\/p>\n<p>Polis said people will also have the opportunity to see the boulder dubbed \u201cMemorial Rock.\u201d It fell on Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-hwy-145-will-be-rerouted-around-massive-boulder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 8.5 million pound boulder rests next to Colorado State Highway 145 on May 27, 2019, after falling from nearly 1,000 feet from the nearby ridge and destroying the pavement between Cortez and Telluride.Hugh Carey\/Summit Daily News DENVER \u2014 A boulder the size of a house that crashed onto a southwestern Colorado state highway last [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 07:22:06","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}