Navajo State Park, 1526 County Road 982 in Arboles, will host these archaeology programs:

Participants will learn about rock art and Navajo Reservoir at 9 a.m. June 28 at the visitors’ center. Kids will get to draw their own rock-art image and learn about preservation and archaeology.

“Dinetah Rock Art and Navajo Reservoir Archaeology” will be presented at 6 p.m. June 28 at the visitors’ center.

The archaeological history of the Sambrito Wetlands will be discussed at 9 a.m. June 29 at the Sambrito Wetlands trailhead in the northwestern section of the park.

Participants should bring water and a day pack, binoculars, a camera and wear clothing and footwear suitable for an easy to moderate hike on dirt trails.

For more information, visit http://cpw.state.co.us.

Highway 184 scheduled for overnight closure

The Colorado Department of Transportation’s project to replace two culverts underneath Colorado Highway 184 west of Mancos will require a full closure of the highway from 6 p.m. July 9 to 6 a.m. July 10 at mile point 25.1, about a mile and a half west of Mancos, to enable crews to cut into the highway.

The contractor, Mountain Valley Contracting, has successfully replaced one of the two culverts through a pipe-jacking process, a trenchless method of pipeline installation utilizing compressed air to drive the pipe through the ground. The process, it has been determined, will not work for placement of the larger 78-inch culvert.

The alternate route for people wanting to travel between Mancos and Dolores is U.S. Highway 160 and Colorado Highway 145. Starting July 10 and continuing for about two weeks, there will be a 24/7 width restriction. Through the project’s completion in late July, drivers can expect periodic single-lane, alternating traffic Monday through Friday, during daylight hours.

For more information, call (970) 250-9354.

Herald Staff