5 Miles of Interstate Reopened After Slides

Interstate 70 reopened in both directions near Idaho Springs following a weekend of work to clear debris from three massive rockslides along a five-mile stretch. .

State Transportation Department spokeswoman Stacey Stegman said that stretch of I-70 wasn’t known as a slide area, but that slides could happen just about anywhere.

“When you look up at these mountainsides, and look at the fatigue and how old these rocks are, it’s kind of a scary thing to think that we’re driving under them,” Stegman said. “But we still feel that it’s as safe as can be anywhere.”