Landslide closes Icicle Creek Road near Alpine Lakes Wilderness
NATIONAL FORESTS -- Relentless precipitation and soggy ground is causing rocks and soil to give way on steep slopes throughout the region.
The Okanogan-Wenatchee national forests on Friday called for an emergency closure of the Icicle Road near Leavenworth after a landslide swept trees, mud and boulders the size of cars onto the popular forest access.
Icicle Creek Road, or Forest Service Road 76, winds south and west of Leavenworth and its terminus is at the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area boundary on the national forest’s Wenatchee River Ranger District.
The landslide occurred above the Eight Mile Campground and swept tons of debris from the Lion Creek drainage down slope onto Icicle Creek Road.
