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Alta, Snowbird, and Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT Remain Closed This Morning Due to Avalanche Activity

🚧 #RoadClosureUpdate 🚧 #SR210 is still CLOSED to all travel in both directions due to avalanche activity overnight. Control work ongoing & high snowfall rates. Road crews staged where safe. Traffic is closed in both directions until further notice. No est time of reopening. pic.twitter.com/qAtU3cQD2T — UDOT Cottonwood Canyons (@UDOTcottonwoods) February 17, 2021 Extreme avalanche danger and snowfall rates up […]

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AvyBrains | February 17, 2021
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Utah Installing New Wyssen Avalanche Control Systems

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Anyone that regularly visits the Cottonwood Canyons in Utah knows that the Utah DOT does a lot of avalanche control. Last year they installed an new automated control system from the Swiss company Wyssen. The brand is well known around Europe, and even in Canada, but this was the first installation of its kind in the United States. Typically Utah DOT […]

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Mike Lavery | June 16, 2018
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Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons, UT Awarded Lions Share of $100-Million Fund to Remedy Traffic Congestion

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After a fierce statewide battle for $100 million that the Legislature pegged to reduce traffic congestion at crowded recreational areas, Little and Big Cottonwood canyons won the lion’s share of the jackpot Friday, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. The Utah Transportation Commission voted to give them $66 million of the total, or $2 of every $3 available. Other smaller winners […]

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Steven Agar | May 16, 2018
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To Receive Funding Should a Chunk of Big Cottonwood Canyon become the Official Town of Brighton?

Brighton, Utah, Cottonwood Canyon, Big, Little, Petition, new town

Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons, Utah, receive 3.5 million visitors a year and are especially busy this time of year when families flock to the canyons to take a walk or family portraits among the fall colors. To put that into perspective, Big Cottonwood Canyon receives 75% of the visitors of Yellowstone, but in a geographic footprint that is 1% […]

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Steven Agar | October 2, 2017
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13 Human Triggered Avalanches in Utah in the Past 4 Days

Between Thursday, December 19th and Sunday, December 22nd, there were 13 human triggered avalanche in Utah this past week. The avalanche depths varied from 5-feet-deep to 1-foot-deep with most of the avalanche being 2-feet-deep. High elevation zones in the Cottonwood Canyons in Utah were rated at “CONSIDERABLE” avalanche danger over the weekend. Mid elevation zones were at “CONSIDERABLE” as well. […]

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SnowBrains | December 23, 2013
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