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Scenic North Cascades Highway reopens Wednesday
By Q13 News Staff
The scenic drive has been closed for the winter season.
North Cascades Highway, one of the gateways to the national park that bears the same name, reopens Wednesday (May 5).
The gate will be lifted at 1 p.m., WSDOT crews said.
Because of COVID-19, there won t be an official ceremony to mark the occasion, but people who go to celebrate the opening of the scenic roadway can still do so Wednesday as long as they wear masks and stay 6 feet apart.
North Cascades Highway (Photo courtesy WSDOT)
SR-20 closes every year once snow fills avalanche chutes that line the highway. Officials say once these chutes are filled, it poses a safety risk to travelers and road crews.
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Washington on Monday will adopt a new plan to start to reopen the state as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been flattening to trending down over the past few weeks.
The new plan, called Healthy Washington, will group every county into eight regions, which will have to meet four key metrics to advance from Phase 1 to Phase 2.
Regions will have to see a 10% decrease in the number of new coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the previous 14 days and a 10% decrease in COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 people over the previous two weeks. They will also have to have an ICU occupancy below 90%, including both COVID-19 and other patients, and a test positivity rate below 10%.