Work repairing fire-damaged roads in Jasper National Park expected to delay traffic

A helicopter buckets water onto smouldering fires outside of Jasper, Alta., on Friday July 26, 2024. Wildfires encroaching into the townsite of Jasper forced an evacuation of the national park and have destroyed over 300 of the town's approximately 1100 structures, mainly impacting residential areas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken

Work in Jasper National Park repairing fire-affected roads is expected to disrupt traffic through the end of October.

Parks Canada said in a media release that the safety mitigation project work is being done on five roads near the park’s townsite: Highway 93A (Wabasso Road), Marmot Road, Whistlers Road, Maligne Road and Cavell Road, which is completely closed.

Drivers can expect single-lane alternating traffic with periodic stoppages on the roads under construction.

A wildfire in the area two years ago burned 330 square kilometres of the park and destroyed 350, or one-third, of the townsite’s buildings.

The Jasper townsite is 315 kilometres west of Edmonton.