Loveland Pass closes due to 100-foot wide mountain slide
Colorado Department of Transportation/Courtesy photo
Loveland Pass has since reopened.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information from CDOT.
U.S. Highway 6 over Loveland Pass is closed Sunday, June 15, due to a mountain slide that the Colorado Department of Transportation described in a Facebook post as 100 feet wide and 15-20 feet deep.
The pass closed at 5:25 a.m., and there is no estimated reopening time yet. In an email to the Summit Daily News around noon on Sunday, CDOT communications manager Austyn Dineen said that the agency could not safely begin cleanup efforts yet because “the area is still actively moving.”
“We are (expecting) for this to be an extended closure,” Dineen wrote.
The slide occurred at mile marker 226 on Loveland Pass. Dineen said CDOT has records of the same area partially sliding in 2003, but it stabilized on its own shortly after and has had no history of movement since.
Access to Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will remain open. The public is advised to remain clear of the area while it is closed, according to CDOT.
Kit Geary contributed reporting.
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