Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties - The Colorado Department of Transportation and their contractor partner, Kraemer North America, will begin rock scaling operations in early October 2024 near Idaho Springs as part of the I-70 Floyd Hill Project. The impact of these activities will be traffic delays on I-70 for the next two months.

Traffic holds will take place Monday through Thursday, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Traffic will be held as long as 20 minutes during each traffic hold; motorists can expect 45-minute delays as each traffic queue clears.

Motorists can expect up to six traffic holds per day, approximately every 60 to 75 minutes. For rock scaling operations, westbound I-70 traffic will be held east of the Hidden Valley interchange (Exit 243). Eastbound I-70 traffic will be held west of the Veterans Memorial Tunnels. County Road 314 and Central City Parkway will remain open during scaling operations.

Since eastbound traffic will be held west of the Veterans Memorial Tunnels, it will impede traffic trying to get to the Central City Parkway. Gilpin County residents with business in Idaho Springs during these construction periods might consider taking the Virginia Canyon Road (aka “Oh My God Road”) to avoid the I-70 delays.

For the most current information on this work, please sign up for Project text alerts by texting ‘floydhill’ to 21000.