I-70 watch: Busiest day in 5 months caps off the busiest month of ski season
Seventy cars every minute. That’s about how many vehicles drove I-70 through Summit County in the 5 o’clock hour on Friday, Feb. 27, during the busiest day since late September of last year. When the day was done the CDOT traffic meter at the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels tallied nearly 47,000 vehicles, kicking off the busiest three days of ski season. Traffic hit 44,906 on Saturday and 44,669 on Sunday for a […]
Lean February barely bumps Summit snowfall past 100 inches this season
Take it from the folks at Denver Water, the owner of Dillon Reservoir: Nothing short of record-breaking snowfall this spring will save the High Country from a record-breaking dry spell. The photo is from today heading into Breckenridge on Highway 9. Denver Water also says the odds of that happening are “unlikely.” That’s an understatement. Snowpack is four to five […]