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Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park won’t be open for Memorial Day weekend

Wind delaying snow plowing on mountain stretch of U.S. 34

A plow driver works to clear persistent snow on the Trail Ridge Road segment of U.S. 34 in Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Rocky Mountain National Park)
A plow driver works to clear persistent snow on the Trail Ridge Road segment of U.S. 34 in Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Rocky Mountain National Park)
Denver Post reporter Max Levy in Denver Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
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Trail Ridge Road likely will remain closed through Memorial Day, as challenges snowplow drivers along the Rocky Mountain National Park segment of U.S. 34.

Winds causing low visibility, ice and drifting snow during the past week have stymied work to reopen the roadway, whose crest at 12,183 feet makes it the highest continuous paved road in the country,

Trail Ridge Road closes every year during the winter snow season and historically reopens in late May.

More snow and freezing overnight weather are forecast above 10,000 feet in the national park this weekend, the National Park Service wrote in a statement Thursday.

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