LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Emigrant Canyon Street in Loss of life Valley will shut beginning Jan. 6, 2025, for repairs which might be anticipated to final till early March, in keeping with the Nationwide Park Service.
Most roads have reopened within the park since extreme flash flooding in August 2023 — the remnants of Hurricane Hilary, the identical storm that devastated roads and trails on Mt. Charleston. Loss of life Valley Nationwide Park is a couple of two-hour drive from Las Vegas.
The park closed for 2 months in 2023, and solely restricted entry was out there as roads had been repaired. Flooding extensively broken Emigrant Canyon Street, leaving drop-offs as much as 6 ft the place pavement was once.
Images of milepost 2.1 on Emigrant Canyon Street. FHWA engineers conducting an evaluation after the flood (left). Short-term repairs accomplished (proper). (Picture credit score: Nationwide Park Service)
Park officers mentioned the closure means no highway entry to Wildrose till repairs are full. See present highway situations in Loss of life Valley.
Darkish Sky 2025 set Feb. 21-23 at Loss of life Valley Nationwide Park
“This construction includes armoring to protect the road from flash floods. Climate change is increasing the frequency of severe floods,” Superintendent Mike Reynolds mentioned. “Unfortunately, we need to close the road now so the work can happen.”
The Federal Freeway Administration (FHWA) employed a contractor to fill in lacking highway segments with gravel and chilly patch asphalt, permitting a brief reopening of Emigrant Canyon Street in spring 2024.
Beginning Jan. 6, a second FHWA contract will bury concrete boundaries and rock-filled gabions within the highway shoulders to guard essentially the most susceptible sections of the highway from flash floods.
Since Decrease Wildrose Street can also be closed as a result of flood injury, it will imply there isn’t a highway entry to Wildrose Campground, Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, Wildrose Peak Path, Thorndike Campground, Mahogany Flat Campground, or Telescope Peak Path till early March 2025.
