NPS: Canyonlands: Elephant Hill Road Impassable

[ret32]

Announcement via email 8/5/2012:

Please be advised that Elephant Hill Road has become "impassable" until
further notice due to a large washed out portion of the road. We are
working to resolve the situation and will notify you once it becomes
passable again. Please contact me if you have any further questions.
Thanks for your understanding and patience.

R. Steven Edwards
Acting Needles District Ranger

Will keep all up to date

 

[Greg]

Thanks for the info!!

 

[ret32]

Elephant Hill Repaired

As of 8/8/12...

With shovel, maddox, and lots of elbow grease the Elephant Hill 4X4 road is
now open...Thanks, -Clay

Clay Hanna
Needles District Interpreter
Canyonlands National Park

 

[mbryson]

As of 8/8/12...

Wow! cool that they reopened that route that quickly. I was expecting it to take a while ....(for some reason)

 

[Maverick]

I wonder where it got washed out.

 

[ret32]

I wonder where it got washed out.

I've got pix of it. But they are NPS internal pix so I don't feel comfortable posting them publicly. I can't really tell exactly where the location is, but it was just an area along a flat portion of the trail with high brush on both sides. It got washed out down the center of the trail, maybe 20 feet long. It really didn't look bad enough to stop most RME type folk, but the NPS has different road standards than the typical RME'er.

 

[Maverick]

Ok, I mainly wondered if it was near the sinkhole.

 

[DAA]

Cool beans. Means I'm back on to run it Saturday .

Thanks for the update!

- DAA