Image courtesy of National Park Service (NPS)
PAYTON GALL — Since 2022, reconstruction crews have been repairing the stretch of roadway in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s south unit loop that collapsed after a series of landslides, ineffective drainage, and poor road subgrade material caused a four-mile section of the road to slide down a hill in 2019.
Park officials had been hoping that the weather would have cooperated to allow crews to finish work on the six-mile stretch of road as soon as November this year, but this week they have put a cap on the project for now. Officials anticipate that it’s going to be completed this summer.
The 36-mile loop has been closed for years, but the park says that it’s going to be more accessible to the 800,000 annual visitors than before it was closed.
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