The upper level of State Route 504, the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, has reopened for the season, according to a press release from the Washington State Department of Transportation. WSDOT and the U.S. Forest Service reopened the gates Tuesday.
“There’s a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to reopen the highway each year,” WSDOT Highway Maintenance Worker Kent Palmer said in the press release. “We plowed a lot of snow and cleared a lot of debris so the gates can open this week.”