Final paving begins on long overdue Mount Rose Avenue/I-83 project
Final paving has begun on the long overdue Mount Rose Avenue/Interstate 83 interchange project.
The state Department of Transportation on Friday confirmed that Cherry Hill Construction has begun final paving on Mount Rose Avenue. Although no new completion date was announced,
Cherry Hill has said in the past that it could complete the project within 90 days once it starts the final paving. The contractor has not provided a revised schedule update, however they have indicated they will complete the final paving of I-83 mainline and the ramps by the end of summer/early fall, PennDOT spokesperson Dave Thompson said in a statement.
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Last month, I shared some ideas for walking with your dog in the lower-elevation areas of our region. Now that we’ve begun experiencing some of the sweltering days that summer can bring, let’s take a look at options for hikes in cooler, higher destinations.
Pioneer Trail
If you want to hike with your dog into the county’s more remote mountain region, you couldn’t ask for anything better than the Pioneer Trail. Beginning at the Harmony Ridge Market on Highway 20 across from the Wheelhouse, the trail parallels the highway all the way to White Cloud, where it crosses the road and heads well into the back country, down to Bear Valley, and eventually to Lake Spaulding. (A lesser-known route is the Harmony Trail, which takes off at the market and marches parallel to and below the Pioneer Trail for a few miles and then drops down into the Rock Creek watershed.) There are a number of spots further up Highway 20 where you can catch the trail, including the Conservation Ca
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Would a Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola be more about making money or problem solving?
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A $592-million, 8-mile gondola? Or $510 million for enhanced bus service with a wider road?
Those two options have so far made the cut as the most viable solutions to solving the snarl of traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon on powder days, when thousands of skiers and snowboarders flock to experience what’s made Utah famous: the Wasatch Mountains’ “greatest snow on Earth.”
The Utah Department of Transportation isn’t slated to make a final recommendation between those two options from its draft environmental impact study until this upcoming 2021-22 ski season.
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