The Coldwater Lake Recreation Area and trail system are reopening after a months-long closure after a landslide closed the area.
Washington Department of Transportation spokesperson Tamara Greenwell said a massive mudslide Sunday night was so big it demolished the 85-foot Spirit Lake Outlet Bridge and closed State Route 504 at milepost 43.
“Monday morning, our crews got better eyes on the slide…what we’re calling a massive landslide. It took out an 85-foot bridge structure completely,” Greenwell continued. “Yeah, I was out there yesterday. And I was able to see sort of mangled and tangled bridge rebar. Like about half a mile downstream. It is a massive landslide.”“We got some drone video of it yesterday to get a broad scope of what we’re dealing with,” Greenwell said.
Greenwell thinks this event will impact tourism in the short term; however, folks can still go up to Mount St. Helens, just nothing past milepost 43. It’s too soon to say the cause of the landslide, but the initial assessment from geotechnical engineers is that the unseasonably hot temperatures drastically melted the snowpack, which then oversaturated the soils — loosening it enough to cascade down the mountain and taking out the bridge.WSDOT is working in coordination with the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
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