A broken bridge leaves an isolated Colorado community scrambling to save summer
By Nancy Lofholm
- The U.S. 50 bridge over Blue Mesa Reservoir could be closed for months after inspectors found a crack
- Gunnison County, a community reliant on summer tourism, is bracing for economic impacts it's already starting to see
- “This puts us on an island here,” one resident said. “It’s pretty sobering to think about how isolated we really are.”
