{"id":24250,"date":"2024-12-26T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-145-reopens-north-of-dolores-after-thursday-morning-rockslide\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:50:58","slug":"colorado-145-reopens-north-of-dolores-after-thursday-morning-rockslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-145-reopens-north-of-dolores-after-thursday-morning-rockslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado 145 reopens north of Dolores after Thursday morning rockslide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2468f840-858f-5701-9987-f12b9ca2f100&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1513\" alt=\"A vehicle-sized boulder blocked traffic on Colorado Highway 145 north of Dolores, near mile post 25, Thursday morning. The highway reopened around noon. (Courtesy of Colorado Department of Transportation)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A vehicle-sized boulder blocked traffic on Colorado Highway 145 north of Dolores, near mile post 25, Thursday morning. The highway reopened around noon. (Courtesy of Colorado Department of Transportation)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A rockslide on Colorado Highway 145 north of Dolores temporarily cut traffic down to one lane Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The highway reopened fully shortly before noon. The slide occurred near mile post 25, about 14 miles north of Dolores.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Department of Transportation officials responded around 10 a.m. with heavy machinery to reports that rock and mud had covered a portion of the highway, said CDOT spokeswoman Adair Christensen.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries or damage to any vehicles was reported, according to Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The slide is 4 miles past where<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/update-crew-blasts-boulder-blocking-colorado-145\/\" id=\"link-b920d1f6f5441b56a4e5eb5c08e5443b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> two house-sized boulders blocked <\/a>the highway in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1071d346-9fad-5e9b-8a29-09376383e8a3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" alt=\"A vehicle-sized boulder blocked traffic on Colorado Highway 145 north of Dolores, near mile post 25, Thursday morning. Crews will return at a later date, likely next week, to blast the largest boulder into smaller pieces and move it farther away from the edge of the highway. The blasting will likely require a full road closure. (Courtesy of Colorado Department of Transportation)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A vehicle-sized boulder blocked traffic on Colorado Highway 145 north of Dolores, near mile post 25, Thursday morning. Crews will return at a later date, likely next week, to blast the largest boulder into smaller pieces and move it farther away from the edge of the highway. The blasting will likely require a full road closure. (Courtesy of Colorado Department of Transportation)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Christensen said crews will return at a later date, likely next week, to blast the largest boulder into smaller pieces and move it farther away from the edge of the highway. The blasting will likely require a full road closure.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-55764b236a4caa4ea19dcbff445d1ec1\"><a href=\"mailto:rschafir@durangoherald.com\">rschafir@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>return to downsize large boulder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,44,28,1685],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-department-of-transportation","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-road-work-and-conditions"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78457,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24250\/revisions\/78457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24250"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}