TRNP loop repairs targeted for 2022

Sen. John Hoeven says reconstruction of the scenic loop in the Theodore Roosevelt Park should be completed in 2022.

A five-mile stretch of the road was damaged in a landslide.

Hoeven says the National Park Service has committed $39 million to the project. He says preconstruction work – design and a geotechnical assessment – was completed last year, and construction is scheduled to start in 2022.  “We’re working to update and repair the Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s infrastructure, with $39 million having been slated for the rebuilding of a 5-mile stretch of the south unit’s scenic loop.”

Prior to the road closing, approximately 85 percent of the South Unit’s visitors traveled the loop road as part of the park experience.

Hoeven brought Deputy Secretary of the Interior – Tommy Beaudreau – to the park this week to see the damage first hand.

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Hoeven staff photo