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Road Report Archive
Please use the websites below to help make travel plans to Stanley
ITD Highway Info (hb.511.idaho.gov)
Link to weather cam (Sawtooth Camera)
Road Report December 22
Both highways, 75 and 21, are still open but it is currently snowing. Driving conditions are fair to difficult with packed snow on the roadways. Highway 75 to Challis doesn’t appear to be as bad as 75 to Ketchum. We will keep an eye on it, but I would remind people in your post to dial “511” to get the most up to date road report from ITD or go to their website at http://511.idaho.gov. That’s usually where I get my information unless I am able to talk to one of our local ITD drivers. It’s pretty warm snow, so the possibility of a slide is fairly likely in the next day or so. We’ll see how much snow we get. The winter storm warning is up to 12 inches above 6500 feet, 3-8 in the mountain valleys.
As for the groomer, it is still broken down. It could be another week before it is up and running. We are currently working on an agreement with Smiley Creek for them to maintain that south end of the valley trails. If we can get that taken care of today or early next week, that section of the trails will most likely be the first to get groomed. So far though, nothing has been groomed, although we haven’t had much snow. Hopefully this storm will drop a few inches at least and give us a good cover to start with.
