There is no easy way around the slide. The only alternate route for eastbound traffic: Colorado Hwy. 13 to U.S. 40 and for westbound traffic: US 131 to US 40. That's about a 230-mile detour.
Eastbound I-70 is closed at exit 116 in Glenwood Springs and westbound at exit 140 at Gypsum. The rockslide happened right by the Hanging Lakes rest area (mile marker 125). Some of the massive boulders punched completely through the road surface and then tumbled into the river.
Crews say the rockslide is at least 8 to 10 feet deep and almost 100 feet long.
'This is a pretty big slide, there's been bigger, but this is pretty big,' said Dwayne Gaymon, a local highway supervisor.
He said three of the boulders that came down in the rockslide were about 8 feet square. An engineer on site described one boulder as being the size of a van.
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