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<\/a>Jennifer Cochran \/ Flickr<\/p>
With both major east-west highways through the White Mountains open by tomorrow, the region is ready to host hoardes of fall foliage tourists.<\/p><\/div>\n
The other main east-west thoroughfare through the White Mountains–the Kancamagus Highway–reopened last weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lynch pushed for the White Mountains repairs in advance of heavy foliage tourism<\/a> traffic.<\/p>\n For more immediate tourism concerns, the Loon Mountain Pedestrian Bridge also opened last weekend, in time for the start of the Highland Games<\/a> today in Lincoln.\u00a0 As the Union-Leader<\/em> reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n “Lincoln welcomes the Highland Games this weekend despite a collapsed town bridge that links Loon Mountain Resort with the Kancamagus Highway. The bridge partially collapsed several days after suffering damage from Irene. A Bailey-style bridge will allow for foot traffic and a bridge and road to Loon\u2019s South Peak will also provide access to the Highland Games.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Although there are some roads that are still a bit rough, they’re at least open.\u00a0 Paula Tracy of the Union-Leader<\/em> did note an exception,<\/p>\n “The historic Blair Coverered Bridge in Campton, however, remains closed. Dout Gosling, DOT bridge maintenance administrator, said the bridge is a town bridge and is likely eligible for federal disaster assistance.<\/p>\n Residents and businesses near the long-span bridge over the Pemigewasset are anxious to see it reopen after a tree went through its side during the high water. The closure of the bridge requires an extra eight- to nine-mile ride in either direction.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly three weeks after taking heavy damage from Tropical Storm Irene, Route 302 at Hart’s Location is set to reopen to traffic tomorrow.\u00a0 A press release from Governor John Lynch’s office notes the reopening is nearly a week ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[506,484,499,156,510],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}