Seasonal closures · Colorado

Which roads close for winter in Colorado?

2 roads in Colorado close for the winter on a schedule the agency publishes, one of them a park road run by the National Park Service. Each page below shows what the COtrip feed is posting for that route right now and quotes the closing and reopening dates from the agency's own page. The dates move with the snow. Storm closures on roads that stay open all winter are on the Colorado road conditions page.

CO-82

Is Independence Pass open?

Usually closes late October or early November and reopens the week before Memorial Day weekend.

US-34 · park road

Is Trail Ridge Road open?

Park road. Usually closes mid to late October and reopens the last week of May.

How to read these pages

A seasonal closure is a gate the agency locks for the winter, not a storm closure. COtrip posts storm closures and chain rules in its feed, and those show on the Colorado road conditions page. A seasonal gate is announced on the agency's page and sometimes in the feed too. Each road page reads the feed for its route and lists whatever is posted, and says plainly when nothing is.

Closing dates in these pages are the ones the agency gives, with the date MileCheck read them. None of them is a prediction. When an agency has not posted dates for the 2026-27 winter, the page says that.

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