Getting your player ready...
The Colorado Department of Transportation is closing the remaining 10-mile segment of the Mount Evans Highway — Highway 5 — for the season to most vehicular traffic on Monday for construction.
CDOT needs to build a retaining wall along the edge of the highway to improve its stability near Lincoln Lake, about 6½ miles up from Echo Lake, requiring a full closure of the roadway. Only authorized vehicles and hunters with a current license for that game unit will be permitted to use the highway during the closure period.
The five-mile segment from Summit Lake to the summit was closed to traffic on Sept. 2.
Highway 5 is scheduled to reopen for the summer season on May 22, 2015, weather permitting.
