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By Mike Vanden Bosch

Highway closure

UPDATE, 10:03 A.M. THURSDAY: Highway 3 between Sunshine Valley and Manning Park reopens

Jan 1, 2026 | 7:31 AM

UPDATE, 10:03 A.M. THURSDAY: DriveBC reported at 9:53 a.m. that Highway 3 has reopened between Sunshine Valley and Manning Park after an earlier closure due to downed power lines. There is a speed reduction to 30 km/h at the 42-km mark for ongoing road construction.

Original story:

CROWSNEST HIGHWAY/MANNING PARK — Roughly a week after the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Transit celebrated its reopening between Hope and Princeton, Highway 3 is closed again in both directions.

According to a brief statement posted online, DriveBC says Highway 3 is closed in both directions between Sunshine Valley and Manning Park due to downed hydro lines. More specifically, the closure starts 60 km east of Hope and continues to 15 km west of Manning Park, at Allison Pass.

Neither a detour or an estimated time of opening is currently available.

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DriveBC notified the public about the highway closure at 12:50 a.m. early Thursday morning, New Year’s Day.

BC Hydro’s outage dashboard indicates 166 customers southeast of Hope lost power at 11:45 p.m. on New Year’s Eve due to a “tree down across our wires.” It’s the exact same location that experienced a weeklong outage from Monday, Dec. 15 to Monday, Dec. 22 for the same reason – downed trees across hydro lines and wires.

Only minutes before the arrival of Christmas, the provincial government announced that Highway 3 reopened between Hope and Princeton for passenger vehicles. The announcement was made late Christmas Eve following weeks of work to repair the corridor after a washout in December. The Ministry of Transportation and Transit says the highway reopened sooner than expected as a result around-the-clock work by highway contractors.