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***UPDATE 7-29-23: Closure Location Moving (7-31-23 thru 8-11-23)***

Starting Monday, July 31, 2023, through August 10th, a 0.7th -mile segment of the North-South Road (10N83) on Placerville Ranger District will be temporarily closed to facilitate the cutting and removal of hazardous trees associated with the Caldor Fire. For your safety and the safety of others, please plan your travel accordingly, it is advisable to seek alternative routes.

This temporary road closure will be a “HARD” closure to the extent that the equipment being used to extract the felled timber from the adjacent slopes must be positioned on the travel way of the North-South Road. For safety reasons, the logging equipment must be “guy-wired” to the adjacent slopes and is quite large and not readily mobile, thus traffic will not be able to pass thru the closed area either day or night during the temporary closure period.

Details:

The current closure on the North-South Road between Capps Crossing Road intersection and the Plummer Ridge Road intersection will end on Saturday afternoon on July 29th.

A NEW CLOSURE of the North-South Road will be established on the North-South Road between the intersection of the North-South Road and Leoni Road (09N73) thru to the intersection of the North-South Road and the Cat Creek Road (09N17). The new closure will start on Monday, July 31st and extend thru August 11th. Access to PiPi Campground will continue to be available via the Omo Ranch Road or the Cat Creek Road. Access to PiPi Campground on the North-South Road via the Leoni Road out of Grizzly Flat or via the North-South Road from the Mormon Emigrant Road will not be possible during this temporary closure.

Informational signs will be placed at the following major intersections advising of the road closure:

1. Mormon-Emigrant Road and the North-South Road intersection.

2. Cat Creek Road and the North-South intersection

3. Leoni Road and North-South Road intersection.

4. Omo Ranch Road and North-South Road intersection.

5. Leoni Road and Leoni Meadows Camp intersection.

In addition to the informational signs mentioned above, barricades will be placed across the full road width::

1. On the North-South Road at the Leoni Road intersection

2. On the North-South Road at the Cat Creek Road intersection.

At the location of the barricades, there is plenty of room for large vehicles, including vehicles with large trailers to turn around.

Detour signs will be placed at the following locations to direct drivers on alternative routes around the temporarily closed segment of the North-South Road:

1. On the North-South Road at the Leoni Road intersection there will be detour signs directing drivers to Grizzly Flat.

The above temporary closures will not affect access to the Capps Campground area, however, access to the PiPi Campground will not be available from the Grizzly Flat area or via the North-Sot. Please note that Capps Campground is CLOSED.

Additional areas along the Leoni Road, the North-South Road, and the Capps Crossing Road will have future short-term closures or delays to allow for additional hazard trees to be cut and removed. It is expected that these additional closures or delays will be of short duration and affect only short segments of the affected roads. These additional closures or delays will be announced and appropriately signed when they go into effect in August.