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Title: NOTICE: Closures on Highway SR14 - Mar 1st to Sept 2nd Post by: duc_fan on February 26, 2010, 08:23:49 AM We got notice at work that SR 14 will be closed regularly throughout the summer for rockfall mitigation (blasting and scaling).
If you were planning a ride out the Gorge on SR14, do it before June 15th. NOTE: This does NOT affect Cougar Run rides, as the turnoff for Carson and the Wind River Hwy is a few miles before Dog Mountain. March 1st -- June 14th, SR 14 will be closed between Dog Mountain (Milepost 54) and White Salmon from 4pm-6pm on weekdays. (They're doing blasting on some of the cliff faces) June 15th -- Sept 2nd, SR 14 will be closed along the same stretch starting at 7am, with 2-hour closures and 1-hour openings until 6pm, 7 days a week. (This is when they'll be doing scaling... where some poor dude gets to go up the cliff face in a lift, or hang down on a harness, and knock loose any rocks that look like a risk) Map: (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/6C82CED3-A413-40D5-AED5-0874371985CB/0/SR14WhiteSalmonLARGE.gif) Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/SR14-rockfall-mitigation (http://tinyurl.com/SR14-rockfall-mitigation) More info... Project overview PDF: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D6C73359-66AD-41DF-A55E-F3CC35D13D67/0/SR14RockfallHappens_Sep09_optimized.pdf (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D6C73359-66AD-41DF-A55E-F3CC35D13D67/0/SR14RockfallHappens_Sep09_optimized.pdf) Another project PDF: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/2D9D61F9-8DFE-4151-B1AF-1A98FA88C5BE/0/SR14Rockfall_ClosureSchedule_Optimized.pdf (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/2D9D61F9-8DFE-4151-B1AF-1A98FA88C5BE/0/SR14Rockfall_ClosureSchedule_Optimized.pdf) Project website: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR14/RockfallMitigationWhiteSalmon/default.htm (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR14/RockfallMitigationWhiteSalmon/default.htm) Ride safe! Title: Re: NOTICE: Closures on Highway SR14 - Mar 1st to Sept 2nd Post by: duc_fan on February 26, 2010, 08:30:11 AM Oh, just saw some other SR 14 project notices, and these will affect Cougar Run rides, though these are not closures.
Road construction on SR14 in the Camas/Washougal area: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr14/camaswashougal/ (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr14/camaswashougal/) Construction at Cape Horn: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr14/capehornsafety/ (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr14/capehornsafety/) Title: Re: NOTICE: Closures on Highway SR14 - Mar 1st to Sept 2nd Post by: krolik on February 26, 2010, 08:01:23 PM You can still blast out on 84 and cross at the Bridge of the Gods, that's a couple of miles west of Stevenson.
Title: Re: NOTICE: Closures on Highway SR14 - Mar 1st to Sept 2nd Post by: duc_fan on March 04, 2010, 12:21:40 PM You can still blast out on 84 and cross at the Bridge of the Gods, that's a couple of miles west of Stevenson. Yeppers. I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware of these road construction projects so you could avoid them if/when riding out the Gorge this spring and summer. [thumbsup] Happy motoring! [moto] |