HWY 20 possible opening

..aahh, the benefits of low snowpack <br><br> www.wsdot.wa.gov/northcascades/

Is that 1972 opening date listed a typo? September was the opening date?<br><br>Will be nice to get access, but rather grim assessment of being the earliest date to be opened for reasons that we all know. I thought that there was one year the the road never closed. Does that not count?

Is that 1972 opening date listed a typo? September was the opening date?<br><br>Will be nice to get access, but rather grim assessment of being the earliest date to be opened for reasons that we all know. I thought that there was one year the the road never closed. Does that not count?

<br><br><br>The 1976/77 season it never closed. That year Chinook and Cayuse also stayed open through the winter.... I think the 76/77 year is still considered the worst season on record for snow in the past 40 years. <br>We had some real lean winters in the 1940s as well as the 1940s was the worst decade on record for snowfall in WA. but I doubt any of us were around, or at least old enough to remember those years.

Is that 1972 opening date listed a typo? September was the opening date?<br>

<br><br>(from the DOT website)<br><br>Highway 20 history<br>The North Cascades Highway was completed September 2, 1972, connecting the Skagit River Valley with the Methow Valley.

I heard that before the last snowfall, the road was bare all the way to Rainy Pass. Anyone heard/got any details on what it's like now?<br> <br><br>

Here is the latest word on the NC Highway opening up...<br><br><br> www.wsdot.wa.gov/northcascades/