Battle Pass follows suit

A week after Memorial Day, Wyoming Highway 70 over Battle Pass has been cleared by the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) and opened for the season on Monday, June 3.

“Crews from Saratoga and Baggs have been working to clear the road from their respective sides of the Sierra Madre and have completed that work,” said WYDOT Public Relations Specialist Matthew Murphy in an email on Monday. “They worked through this past weekend to get the road open this morning.”

Murphy also advised that travelers watch for patches of frozen runoff due to high country conditions.

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