Icicle Creek

LEAVENWORTH—A landslide that swept trees, boulders and mud down a slope has made the Icicle Creek Road, or Forest Service Road 76, impassable, according to Okanogan-Wenatchee N.F. managers. The Icicle Creek Road winds south and west of Leavenworth, and ends at the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area boundary on the national forest’s Wenatchee River Ranger District. On Thursday, Forest Service managers discovered the landslide, which is located just east of the Eight Mile Campground. Some permanent residents live west of the campground and where the landslide has made the road impassable. Forest Service hydrologists and engineers will assess the road damage on Friday. They are uncertain when the road will be reopened.

Access to this run is currently unavailable due to a land slide and the road is closed at Ida Creek campground. A drastic change in weather patterns created rapid snow melt, triggering a massive snow and debris slide that closed roads and campgrounds in the upper Icicle Valley this past weekend. The debris slide carried trees, mud and huge boulders into Icicle Creek, effectively pushing the already flood swollen waters over the main Icicle Road (FS Road #7600), approximately 15 miles southwest of Leavenworth, WA.

Updates on the road and campground status will be posted on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Recreation website: www.fs.fed.us/r6/wenatchee or by calling the Wenatchee River Ranger District at 509-548-6977.