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HWY127 is now fully open to through traffic with construction occurring in shoulder areas only from Monday through Friday 6AM-4PM. This portion of work is expected to continue through June 2024. NO FLAGGING IS REQUIRED AT THIS TIME BUT MAY OCCUR AS NEEDED TO COMPLETE REPAIR WORK. The route remains fully open to traffic during an outside of work hours. Crews continue shoulder repair work and an approximate 2 mi section of the route. Little Dumont Little Dumont is open. Photos of original storm damage/ Source: Caltrans District 8

This year Halloween is on a Friday night! Therefore Halloween weekend will be Oct 31-Nov 2nd. Lots of people pre-plan their work days off super early so hopefully this helps! We'll have to wait and see, but trick or treating and Halloween festivities will likely still be Saturday night but we'll see if the community makes their plans for Friday. Saturday night has been the traditional for decades out there so you can likely plan on that. 👍

Last week heavy rains near Dumont Dunes caused flash flooding on highway 127 causing the road to be filled with dirt, rock and debris. The road was impassable and was closed in both directions. Crews worked quickly to get it reopened on Aug 30th but mother nature had different plans. More heavy rain on Sept 1st came and flooded the road again. This time some some motorists were trapped for hours. John Edington reported his friend got caught in it that night just north of Baker and didn't make it to dry ground until 3:00. Crews will be working on getting it reopened asap. We'll update you as soon as it gets reopened, but check with Caltrans for the absolute latest. Closures are also usually updated pretty quickly on Google Maps Traffic layer. (featured photo: Michael Battaglia, photo below: John Edington) photo 9/2/23: Debbie Baker 9/5/23 UPDATE The brand new Dumont entrance road is fine and so is the river crossing. It's just a ~9'x24' section of highway 127 near the little dunes that is badly damaged. The 127 remains closed from Shoshone to Baker until the highway is repaired.