Old Mine Road Washout

[Eskimo]

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I was just there Sunday. The section that I saw that was closed was the section of Old Mine just after it passes over the Flatbrook about a mile away from Blue Mountain Road. It opened up again at the intersection with NPS617.

There are probably other sections of road that are closed as you travel further North.

Road closings in the Delaware Water Gap are a good thing! With 5 million visitors a year, the park gets so over-crowded so only way to control the teeming hordes of pinickers and bucket-sitters is to close the damn roads.

I remember when one of the hurricanes washed out Blue Mountain Road and it took over a year for the NPS to repair the road. Anybody who wanted to go to the lakes had to walk at least a mile -uphill. It was fantastic!

The lake that is normally over-run with dickwad picknickers and their piles of trash was only visited by a few dedicated hikers and anglers. It was possibly to have the whole lake to yourself on a Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer.

The following summer they fixed the road and the caravans of jackoffs and bucket-sitters re-infested the area like a plague.

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