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IDAHO SPRINGS — Drive today or wait until May.
In a sure sign of autumn, the lower portion of the Mount Evans Highway is being closed. The state Department of Transportation will close Colorado 5 between Echo Lake and Summit Lake for the season on Monday. CDOT closed the 5-mile segment of the highway from Summit Lake to the top of Mount Evans the day after Labor Day.
The road to the 14,264-foot Mount Evans is billed as North America’s highest paved highway.
Weather permitting, the highway is scheduled to reopen May 27.
The Associated Press
