The U.S. Forest Service plans to repair and reopen the full length of the road to the Middle Ridge cabin. The road was heavily damaged in a November 2023 landslide, with debris covering the road at four points (shown in the inset). The agency reopened the lower portion of the road last year, with work planned this year on the upper portion.
Forest Service plans to clear and rebuild road to Middle Ridge cabin
By Larry Persily
Sentinel writer
Progress is underway toward reopening the full length of Middle Ridge Road.
Sections of the old logging road were overrun in a November 2023 landslide. The U.S. Forest Service is working to complete repairs to the road and reopen access to the Middle Ridge public-use cabin.
"We were able to secure some emergency relief funding for work on the Middle Ridge Road," Wrangell District Ranger Tory Houser said last week.
The agency contracted out repairs to the lower portion of the road last year, bu...
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