Someday, on the familiar run south from Laramie to Fort Collins, drivers on U.S. Highway 287 will crest a ridge in northern Colorado and look down on a sprawling blue reservoir.
Somewhere beneath it — under more than 200 feet of water — will be the highway they once drove.
The asphalt of the old Laramie-to-Fort Collins road will disappear beneath Glade Reservoir, a massive new body of water northwest of Fort Collins that Colorado developers have spent more than two decades fighting to build…