Landslide damages road in Bryce Canyon National Park

Written by Mori Kessler
February 24, 2017
Spring-related erosion caused a landslide taking out a portion of Highway 12 near Mossy Cave, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, Feb 24, 2017 | Photo courtesy of the National Park Service, St. George News

BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK – A spring-related landslide has wiped out a portion of Highway 12 through Bryce Canyon National near Mossy Cave.

Park officials reported the landslide over social media late Friday evening and advise that the area has been impacted by spring-time erosion, resulting in a slide that has left one lane of the roadway open.

One-way travel is controlled by traffic lights and traffic delays are to be expected. Road crews are assessing what is still a very active situation, park officials said.

No injuries were reported in connection with the slide.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mori Kessler serves as a Senior Reporter for St. George News, having previously contributed as a writer and Interim Editor in 2011-12, and an assistant editor from 2012 to mid-2014. He began writing news as a freelancer in 2009 for Today in Dixie, and joined the writing staff of St. George News in mid-2010. He enjoys photography and won an award for photojournalism from the Society of Professional Journalists for a 2018 photo of a bee inspector removing ferals bees from a Washington City home. He is also a shameless nerd and has a bad sense of direction.

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1 Comment

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