As organizers make final preparations and assemble stages before the arrival of Saturday’s Heaven Fest concert, Longmont-area businesses and residents are bracing themselves for tens of thousands of visitors expected this weekend.
The Christian musical festival at Union Reservoir could draw as many as 50,000 people, according to the Worship and Word Movement, the event organizers.
With the crowds will come heavy traffic and closed roads the day of the event.
Officials expect congestion on Colo. 119 east of County Line Road, especially between noon and 5 p.m. and between 8 p.m. and midnight.
There will also be several traffic control points on Colo. 119 at Fairview Street and Weld County Road 3 1/2 and another at Weld County roads 26 and 3 1/2.
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