A rock slide on Tuesday damaged at least one vehicle, injured one person and forced the closure of U.S. Highway 6 through Clear Creek Canyon for about three hours, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
The highway reopened shortly after 3 in the afternoon.
One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries as a result of the slide shortly after noon at mile marker 268, about seven miles west of Golden, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Jacki Kelley.
Deputies were turning back motorists traveling in either direction, Kelley said.
“Two large rocks — one the size of a pickup truck, one the size of a car — and several smaller rocks came down from the mountainside,” said Emily Wilfong, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
The slide collapsed a 4-foot-by-6-foot section of asphalt, Wilfong said.
The rocks had been removed by 1:30 p.m., said State Trooper Nate Reid.
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