Highway 133

On this episode of This I Remember, Marge Valesky and Mary Ferguson discuss the establishment of Sopris Park in downtown Carbondale. Valesky arrived in Carbondale in 1954, and by 1967 she was deeply involved in those efforts. Listeners will also learn what used to be where Carbondale's 7-Eleven is now (spoiler: no roundabout, gas station, or even CO-133), and plenty about how scary the roads and bridges in town used to be in winter.

KDNK’s reporter Hattison Rensberry brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

Colorado Department of Transportation is fast-tracking a temporary bridge over a large washout that closed Hwy. 133 in late April. However, numerous businesses in the North Fork and Roaring Fork valleys continue to feel the economic impacts, and just as the summer tourist season is getting underway.

The $2.8 million project is planned across five sites between Carbondale and the top of McClure Pass. KDNK’s Kathleen Shannon got the details from the…