Building I-70 Through Glenwood Canyon | Engineering the Impossible

Building I-70 Through Glenwood Canyon | Engineering the Impossible

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I-70 through Glenwood Canyon is one of the most complex highway projects ever attempted in the United States. Built through a narrow river canyon with active rockfall zo nes, a major railroad, and one of Colorado’s most sensitive ecosystems, this stretch of Interstate was engineered to work with the canyon instead of overpowering it.

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