Chaffee County Road & Bridge Department announced May 12 that Cottonwood Pass will be reopened for the 2026 summer season by about 5 p.m. May 21.

“Cottonwood would have cost a significant amount of money to keep open through the dozen or so snow falls that have occurred ...

EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. — Cottonwood Pass Road, in Eagle and Garfield counties, reopened for the summer on Monday. The mountain road, which runs from Gypsum to the Roaring Fork Valley between Carbondale ...

Whatever happens, Cottonwood Pass will remain a rural county road Improvements will focus on safety The road will still close in the winter The full report is available on the Colorado Department of ...

An ongoing effort to improve Cottonwood Pass, a popular alternative route when Interstate 70 closes through Glenwood Canyon, was addressed by Garfield County commissioners and Colorado Department of ...

While Cottonwood Pass has long been seen as an alternative when Interstate 70 closes in Glenwood Canyon, neighbors are unsure how improving the rural road might help. The Colorado Department of ...

Wednesday morning perhaps began befittingly when a semi-trailer truck jackknifed into the median just before South Canyon, leading to yet another temporary closure of Interstate 70 in Glenwood Springs ...

Cottonwood Pass has always been seen as a local alternative when Interstate 70 closes through Glenwood Canyon. But closures in both 2020 and 2021 brought far more traffic to the rural road. Those ...