Tioga Road Closure Effective Today (9/18) at Noon

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Tioga Road Closure Effective Today (9/18) at Noon

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Tioga Road (continuation of Highway 120 through the park) will temporarily close today (September 18, 2024) at noon due to a forecast of snow. We will evaluate the road tomorrow morning. Please call 209/372-0200 (then 1, 1) to check road status.
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Re: Tioga Road Closure Effective Today (9/18) at Noon

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so... do any tioga pass experts have a guess when the road will reopen?

we are set to leave the bay at 6AM on friday to drive to the pine creek trailhead.

the NWS tioga pass forecast (https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.p ... 2534179687) predicts that the storm will continue today with little to no accumulation and peter out overnight, so i would expect it to open sometime tomorrow -- but it seems a bit unlikely that we would know by 6 AM friday, right?

108 isn't an option because the 395/108/sonora junction closure has been extended until 9/21 (also due to the storm).

so it seems that the only option besides 120/tioga would be going all the way up to tahoe and then down through nevada on the the 395 detour, which doesn't seem ideal.

just curious what any 120 prognosticators might think :)
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Re: Tioga Road Closure Effective Today (9/18) at Noon

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10AM today as per cal trans district 9
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. Albert Einstein
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Re: Tioga Road Closure Effective Today (9/18) at Noon

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indeed! thanks for the heads up
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YOSE posted that it has re-opened on 10:07am today. With some afternoon precip it might close again, but it looked like a dusting this morning from the mammoth crest.

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