{"id":43718,"date":"2021-11-16T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wolf-creek-pass-to-close-thursday-for-helicopter-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:15:24","slug":"wolf-creek-pass-to-close-thursday-for-helicopter-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wolf-creek-pass-to-close-thursday-for-helicopter-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Creek Pass to close Thursday for helicopter operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=86a7f587-3dd1-4491-ac4d-7c40e8dfac60&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1169\" alt=\"Colorado Department of Transportation will close U.S. Highway 160 at Wolf Creek Pass for at least two hours Thursday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado Department of Transportation will close U.S. Highway 160 at Wolf Creek Pass for at least two hours Thursday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado Department of Transportation will close U.S. Highway 160 at Wolf Creek Pass from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, and possibly longer if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The closure is for helicopter operations and avalanche mitigation preparation for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers will encounter full stops on the west side of the pass at Treasure Falls (milepost 157) and near the pass summit (milepost 166).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Department of Transportation will close U.S. Highway 160 at Wolf Creek Pass for at least two hours Thursday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)du1-i-syn Colorado Department of Transportation will close U.S. Highway 160 at Wolf Creek Pass from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, and possibly longer if necessary. The closure is for helicopter operations and avalanche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718","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=43718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85811,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718\/revisions\/85811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43718"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}