Weekend traffic was up but the holiday was down on the I-70 mountain corridor.
For the first time in eight weeks more than 100,000 vehicles traveled the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels in one weekend.
There were 109,646 cars in three days, May 22-24, and 146,599 cars in four days, May 22-25.
This continues a trend of shrinking traffic for the opening holiday of summer. Traffic this year was down more than 12% from the record high of 2021, when 166,791 vehicles hit the interstate in four days.
The previous year, during COVID shutdown, four-day holiday traffic hit an all-time low of 119,157 vehicles.
Memorial Day weekend traffic tracker
2026… 146,599 vehicles
2025… 150,051 vehicles
2024… 154,142 vehicles
2023… 157,224 vehicles
2022… 152,903 vehicles
2021… 166,791 vehicles (record high)
2020… 119,157 vehicles (record low)
2019… 158,600 vehicles
*measured in 4 days on I-70 at the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels