WYDOT to begin work on the final phase of the North Garner Lake Road

GILLETTE – The Wyoming Department of Transportation will begin the final construction phase of the North Garner Lake Road. Work is expected to begin the week of March 23 if weather allows. 

Contractors will begin working on the new intersection of Northern Drive and North Garner Lake Road. Detours will be put in place to allow for the realignment with the new North Garner Lake Road.

Traffic accessing Northern Drive from North Garner Lake Road will be detoured onto Northern Drive west of its current intersection. Traffic accessing North Garner Lake Road from Northern Drive will also be detoured to the west to access that intersection. Northern Drive traffic will remain online until the final tie-in of the two roads.

Traffic will encounter slight detours, reduced speed limits, flagging operations and heavy truck traffic throughout the next few months.

This project is a partnership between WYDOT, Campbell County Commission, Contura Coal West, Western Fuels Wyoming Inc. and WYODAK Resource Development Corporation LLC.

This new roadway will provide a second north-south access for heavy truck traffic to north Highway 59. This new access will shorten the existing route through Gillette via Highway 14-16 by 4.5 miles.

For information about this news release, contact WYDOT District 4 public information specialist Laura Dalles at (307) 752-3022.

For the latest road conditions, visit www.wyoroad.info, call 5-1-1, or download the Wyoming 511 app. Follow District 4 on Facebook at www.facebook.com/WYDOT-Northeast-Wyoming