Glenwood Canyon
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Oct 17, 2026
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
The project gained more and more funding and was reaching completion by the time the '80s turned into the '90s.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
To complete the original vision, just one last section remained, a 12 and a half mile, 20-kilometer stretch through Glenwood Canyon, Colorado.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
With thousand-foot walls flanking on each side, little room exists aside the Colorado River for a roadway, but a complex collection of bridges and tunnels were constructed at a cost of $960 million, inflation adjusted, corresponding to 75 million per mile or $47 million per kilometer of roadway.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Once this engineering marvel was completed in 1992, however, the nation was connected, and more than two decades after his death, Eisenhower's vision was realized.
Hannah WeaverCORRESPONDENT
For Aspen Public Radio, I'm Hannah Weaver.
Hallie ZanderHOST
The Colorado Department of Transportation will move a major construction project on I-70 in Glenwood Canyon from 2027 to 2028.
Hallie ZanderHOST
That's to avoid overlapping with the major airport restoration of the Aspen Pitkin County Airport scheduled for next year.
Hallie ZanderHOST
Airport travel is expected to shift from Aspen to Eagle or require travelers to drive from Denver, and state officials say delaying the Glenwood Canyon project is critical to maintaining traffic flow and supporting both the regional and statewide economies.
Hallie ZanderHOST
The delay will increase the project cost by about $5 million.
Hallie ZanderHOST
The Good Seed Community Garden at the Orchard Church in Carbondale is having a last harvest party on Sunday before it closes down for good.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
But especially in a landscape like Colorado's, the priority list of road safety issues is constantly shifting, meaning CDOT has to adapt.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
In recent years, Glenwood Canyon, 80 minutes to the west, has become the interstate's new most sensitive section.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
It follows the Colorado River through a deep canyon with thousand foot walls, and in the event of a closure, there is simply no viable diversion route.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
What normally takes 30 minutes turns into a four-hour trek across rural two-lane roads, effectively cutting off the entire western slope from Denver.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Just not many people can ride it very quickly.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
But because the swing launches out over a 1,300-foot, 400-meter drop above the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon, not as many people might want to ride it to begin with.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
But it serves two key purposes: one, to appeal to adrenaline junkies looking for the most thrilling experiences, and two, to act as something highly marketable, a ride that looks great in video or on social media or even sounds good by word of mouth, fully exhibiting the park's iconic landscape sitting atop a mountain overlooking a canyon.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
On the other end of the spectrum, there's the Mine Wheel and the Wild West Express, both bought secondhand and relocated from Canada and situated here and here.
Michael MarrsHOST
Moving on to October the 14th, 1982.
Michael MarrsHOST
Now, this was, a, a, an engineering marvel because one of America's most difficult highway projects reached completion when the final section of Interstate 70 through Colorado's Glenwood Canyon was officially opened.
Michael MarrsHOST
It was a beautiful place, but you gotta think about, they had to squeeze this four-lane interstate through this canyon that already was occupied by the Colorado River.
Michael MarrsHOST
It had a railroad, and it had an existing highway.
Vic VelaHOST
However, stream flows were compromised by the record low snowpack from last winter.
Vic VelaHOST
Repairs on the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon are now underway.
Vic VelaHOST
The work's being done on the westbound I-70 side in Glenwood Canyon from mile marker 125 to 126.
Vic VelaHOST
The Colorado Department of Transportation says the project will ensure safer access to the tunnel's main facility.
Vic VelaHOST
Work hours will be Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Fridays from 7 a.m. to noon.
Lauren D. GardunoGUEST
Yeah.
Lauren D. GardunoGUEST
And we were just a little bit ahead of the I-70 Glenwood Canyon in Colorado.
Lauren D. GardunoGUEST
That gets dubbed as the national last piece of the interstate on the Eisenhower Bill.
Andy TimmonsHOST
Okay.
Andy TimmonsHOST
It was
Lauren D. GardunoGUEST
created.
Lauren D. GardunoGUEST
They had to go through that Glenwood Canyon area.
Lauren D. GardunoGUEST
But they only beat us by, you know, they were a little bit later than us by about a few months.
Kate GroetzingerHOST
Yeah
Aaron WeissHOST
... through Colorado, Glenwood Canyon.
Aaron WeissHOST
Remember what happened when they talked about just sending oil through Glenwood Canyon, and the risk of disaster there, because that is a pinch point.
Kate GroetzingerHOST
Hmm.
Aaron WeissHOST
So now you wanna talk about possibly, I guess, sending nuclear fuel through there? No one has thought through any of the, what this looks like.
Bill ConklinGUEST
That's how ridiculous it's gotten.
Bill ConklinGUEST
The other day, I was riding my bicycle up, uh, Glenwood Canyon, and I stopped to talk to some guy.
Bill ConklinGUEST
Glenwood Canyon's in Colorado.
Bill ConklinGUEST
Far cry from Washington, DC.
Bill ConklinGUEST
And, um, what happened was this, we started talking and this guy says, "Well, what do you do?" And I says, "Well, I wrote a book called Why Nobody's Required to File Tax Returns." That's all I have to do.