OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — This week will be the final one with scheduled four-hour delays at a point on U.S. Highway 101 as it wends around Lake Crescent.
The location of the delays is switching this week also, from east of Barnes Point to west of the point.
The delays will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
During the four-hour delays, the highway eastbound from Forks will remain open up to the turn for Camp David Jr. Road where the Fairholme Campground is located.
Highway 101 westbound from Port Angeles will remain open up to the turn for Barnes Point where Lake Crescent Lodge and the trailheads are located, said Penny Wagner, Olympic National Park spokeswoman.
Drivers should expect short delays for alternating single-lane traffic between East Beach Road and Barnes Point.
Travelers to and from the western side of the North Olympic Peninsula can use state highways 112 and 113 as an alternate route during the delay.
Outside of the scheduled four-hour delays, drivers should expect up to half-hour delays Monday through Friday during work hour, with slower travel through the 12-mile project zone.
A pilot car will lead traffic through the single-lane work zone between Camp David Jr. Road and Barnes Point. The pilot car zone will change as work progresses, Wagner said.
The pilot car zone is planned to be between milepost 225 and 227 on Monday and Tuesday.
Crews also are working east of Barnes Point so drivers should expect short delays for alternating single-lane traffic.
Temporary traffic signals are in operation before and after work hours and on weekends.
Through late September, work hours are restricted to two hours after sunrise to two hours before sunset.
Strider Construction Inc., of Bellingham is in its second of three seasons of work to rehabilitate 12 miles of the highway around Lake Crescent in a project costing $27.5 million. Construction seasons are from March through mid-November.
The work for 2018 includes erosion control, subexcavation, milling and paving beginning on the eastern end of Lake Crescent and working west.
For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/PDN-101delays.
