SIERRA VISTA — The road through the Coronado National Memorial reopened Friday after being closed for nearly four months because of flood damage.
The unpaved roadway to Montezuma Pass and Parker Canyon was heavily damaged by flash flooding and rockslides in late July.
As much as 12 inches of rain pounded the memorial.
Other areas of the park also are being reopened, but the Coronado Cave Trail was wiped out and is not expected to reopen in the near future. The Crest Trail will remain closed until about mid-December while workers repair sections damaged by rockslides. More road work is planned next year, according to the National Park Service, which manages the memorial.
The nearly 4,750-acre memorial overlooks the San Pedro River Valley.
It commemorates the first major exploration of the Southwest by Europeans, an expedition by Spaniard Francisco Vasquez de Coronado that crossed into what is now the United States in 1540 while searching for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola.
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