LAKE CRESCENT — U.S. Highway 101 will be limited to one lane of alternating traffic near the east end of Lake Crescent while crews stabilize a rock face that crumbled and closed the road at about 9 p.m. Saturday.
No one was injured by the rock fall about a half mile east of Lake Crescent’s Barnes Point, about 16 miles west of Port Angeles, inside Olympic National Park.
The westbound lane was reopened about 2½ hours later, and the eastbound lane was cleared Sunday afternoon.
However, state Department of Transportation engineering geologists Doug Anderson and Mike Mulhern feared more rock might fall.
They chose to keep the eastbound lane closed, probably into next week.
