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"Anyone intending to travel south from Park County should make plans to use alternate routes," the Park County Sheriff's Office advised in a Facebook post.
On Monday morning, regional Wyoming Department of Transportation spokesman Cody Beers …
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Wet conditions have triggered a series of mud and rock slides in the Wind River Canyon and have closed the road.
Authorities made the decision to close U.S. Highway 20 through the Canyon on Sunday night and it remained closed on Memorial Day. The highway is expected to remain closed until at least Tuesday, according to a Monday afternoon post on the Thermopolis 911 Communications Center's Facebook page.
"Anyone intending to travel south from Park County should make plans to use alternate routes," the Park County Sheriff's Office advised in a Facebook post.
On Monday morning, regional Wyoming Department of Transportation spokesman Cody Beers tweeted a photo of one massive slide covering the highway, along with photos of several other smaller ones.
Update from Wind River Canyon...road is closed, take alternative route, 5 loaders working on massive slide. #wyoroad pic.twitter.com/HnFtQ0ztAc
More Wind River Canyon slides... pic.twitter.com/y4oBTbPOzd
Beers said WyDOT crews were working to clear the road, which is a heavily-used for access to the Big Horn Basin.
