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Road to Mount Evans Summit Closed for Season

by KREX News Room
by Meaghan Wallace

Story Created: Sep 4, 2012 at 11:15 AM MDT

Story Updated: Sep 4, 2012 at 7:42 PM MDT

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo.- The top part of the highway up Mount Evans is now closed for the season.

Colorado Highway 5 provides access to the top of Mount Evans, which has a peak of more than 14,000 feet.

The Colorado Department of Transportation closes a five-mile section of the highway from Summit Lake to the peak after Labor Day to meet an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service.

The upper portion typically reopens in late spring.

The lower portion of the highway from Echo Lake to Summit Lake will remain open through October, weather permitting.

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