A Stretch Of U.S. 287 From Laramie To Fort Collins Is Going To Bottom Of A Lake

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…

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