Off Limits: Middle Fork Snoqualmie Road closing this week

[Steve]

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[Seattle Post-Intelligencer] A gate was scheduled to swing shut this week on the controversial Middle Fork Snoqualmie Road, permanently closing the last 7.6 miles of one of the roughest, nastiest forest routes in Washington -- and eliminating easy access to spectacular highlands of the Alpine Lake Wilderness.

The U.S. Forest Service decided to gate and close the 25-mile gravel road at Dingford Creek, about 17.4 miles in, as part of a long public process to develop a plan for the picturesque valley of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River outside North Bend.

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