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Road closures for improvements affect popular Colorado Springs park
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) This week starts the second of three planned road closures in North Cheyenne Cañon Park, in the southwestern corner of Colorado Springs.
The city is closing the main road through the popular park, North Cheyenne Cañon Road, for most of May in order to expand and pave a parking lot at the top of the park above Helen Hunt Falls.
The parking lot is a popular place for people to access a variety of trails in the area; also closed for the project is the stretch of Lower Gold Camp Road within the park often considered the back way in which has been blocked by a large boulder for a week while authorities determine how to remove it.
A section of Airport Road closing until June
Starting on Thursday, Airport Road will be closed between Lakewood Circle, and Audubon Drive, which is just west of Academy.
and last updated 2021-04-26 00:34:22-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â Starting on Thursday, Airport Road will be closed between Lakewood Circle, and Audubon Drive, which is just west of Academy.
Traffic will be detoured to Fountain Boulevard and Pikes Peak Avenue.
The closure is expected to last until mid-June.
The closure is due to a construction project to work on the sewer system.
On Wednesday, the day before the closure, eastbound Airport Road will be reduced to one lane at Lakewood Circle and the intersection, Lakewood Circle will be fully closed for construction crews. Crews are doing this to remove a raised median island, the closure will last from 7 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
Colorado Springs city contractors are expected to start work this summer on the long-awaited completion of the Centennial Boulevard extension to connect it to Interstate 25 at Fontanero Street, officials
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