Several Trans-Sierra Highways Open for 2015 Spring Season

[andy3175]

http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/238850/caltrans-reopens-mountain-passes.html

Caltrans reports that Highway 108 Sonora Pass, Highway 4 Ebbetts Pass and Highway 89 Monitor Pass are back open this afternoon. Those passes had initially opened for the Spring season on Friday, April 17th, but were closed on Wednesday, April 22nd due to impending weather conditions. Caltrans reports that all snow and debris have been removed from the highways.

Yosemite National Park has not yet opened Highway 120 Tioga Pass for the season.

[kkt]

http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/238850/caltrans-reopens-mountain-passes.html

Caltrans reports that Highway 108 Sonora Pass, Highway 4 Ebbetts Pass and Highway 89 Monitor Pass are back open this afternoon. Those passes had initially opened for the Spring season on Friday, April 17th, but were closed on Wednesday, April 22nd due to impending weather conditions. Caltrans reports that all snow and debris have been removed from the highways.

Yosemite National Park has not yet opened Highway 120 Tioga Pass for the season.

Still a very early year!  Thanks.

[gonealookin]

The Tioga Pass Road across Yosemite NP will open this Monday, May 4, according to the National Park Service.  It's the fourth-earliest opening since 1980...but indicative of the California drought, the fourth straight year it will be open on or before May 11.  The hope is always to have it open for Memorial Day weekend, but many years that's not possible.

[oscar]

More unusually, the Mormon Emigrant Trail (part of unevenly signed Alt US 50) is open. This is a Forest Service-maintained road, which historically gets about zero snow removal (the FS usually just waits for the snow to melt on its own) unless landslides or other issues with US 50 force traffic between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe to use the alternate route. In 2011, I tried to travel the Trail in early July, and it was still closed by snow.

[NE2]

But I-70 is still not open across the Sierras.

[myosh_tino]

But I-70 is still not open across the Sierras.

Highway 70 *is* open over the northern Sierras although there is some construction work going on and trucks are banned on the western side of the Sierras...

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SR 70
    [IN THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA]
    1-WAY CONTROLLED TRAFFIC AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS FROM 9 MI EAST OF OROVILLE
/AT WHEELOCK CATTLE PASS RD/ TO 11 MI EAST OF OROVILLE /AT PENTZ RD/
(BUTTE CO) FROM 0700 HRS TO 2100 HRS MONDAY THRU FRIDAY THRU 5/1/15
- DUE TO MAINTENANCE - MOTORISTS ARE SUBJECT TO DELAYS OF UP TO 10 MINUTES

    1-WAY CONTROLLED TRAFFIC AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS FROM 11 MI EAST OF OROVILLE
/AT PENTZ RD/ TO 12.5 MI EAST OF OROVILLE (BUTTE CO) FROM 0700 HRS TO 1600 HRS
MONDAY THRU FRIDAY THRU 5/8/15 - DUE TO MAINTENANCE - MOTORISTS ARE SUBJECT
TO 1O DELAYS OF UP TO 10 MINUTES

    1-WAY CONTROLLED TRAFFIC AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS FROM JARBO GAP TO 5.2 MI EAST
OF PULGA (BUTTE CO) FROM 0700 HRS TO 2100 HRS MONDAY THRU FRIDAY THRU 5/1/15
- DUE TO MAINTENANCE - MOTORISTS ARE SUBJECT TO DELAYS OF UP TO 10 MINUTES

    TRACTOR-SEMITRAILER COMBINATIONS OVER 65 FEET & ALL TRACTOR-SEMITRAILER
COMBINATIONS /DOUBLES/ OVER 75 FEET IN TOTAL LENGTH ARE PROHIBITED FROM
13 MI EAST OF THE JCT OF SR 191 TO THE NORTH JCT OF SR 89 /GREENVILLE WYE/
(PLUMAS CO) - ALTERNATE ROUTES ARE AVAILABLE

Of course, I'm referring to California State Route 70, not Interstate 70...