{"id":63405,"date":"2019-03-22T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/red-mountain-pass-reopens-after-20-days\/"},"modified":"2019-03-23T02:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T02:06:58","slug":"red-mountain-pass-reopens-after-20-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/red-mountain-pass-reopens-after-20-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Mountain Pass reopens after 20 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:00405eaf-516c-4260-84bd-bcb22d7fdef9 --><\/p>\n<p>After being closed nearly three weeks because of avalanche danger, U.S. Highway 550 on Red Mountain Pass opened Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Schwantes, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said the route between Silverton and Ouray was cleared after avalanches buried the road in up to 60 feet of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Red Mountain Pass closed March 3. Earlier this week, CDOT said it could take another two weeks to get the pass opened. But Schwantes said crews worked 24\/7 to open it sooner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just hammered it out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Schwantes said CDOT even had to clear two avalanche slides triggered Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Chain laws are in effect for all vehicles traveling the pass. Schwantes said the top of the pass is icy and snowpacked, and lower elevations are wet and slushy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>remains icy and snowpacked at higher elevations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,28,29,1489,87,327],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-63405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-department-of-transportation","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-ouray","tag-red-mountain-pass","tag-silverton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63405","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=63405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63405"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=63405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}