{"id":199180,"date":"2026-02-17T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199180"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:52:02","slug":"chain-controls-on-hwys-4-88-108-120-hwy-88-closed-before-kirkwood-for-avalanche-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199180","title":{"rendered":"Chain Controls on Hwys 4, 88, 108 & 120! Hwy 88 Closed Before Kirkwood for Avalanche Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arnold, CA…This highway information is the latest reported by Caltrans as of Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 at 09:34 AM.<\/p>\n

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SR 4<\/p>\n

[IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA]
\nIs closed from 0.6 mi east of Lake Alpine to 7.2 mi west of the Jct of SR 89 \/Ebbetts Pass\/ (Alpine Co) – For the winter – Motorists are advised to use an alternate route<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from Arnold to the Mt Reba turnoff (Calaveras Co)<\/p>\n

1-way controlled traffic at the Contra Costa\/San Joaquin Co Line \/at Old River Bridge\/ 24 hrs a day 7 days a week thru 1900 hrs on 7\/26\/26 – Due to construction
\nSR 88<\/p>\n

[IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA & SIERRA NEVADA]
\nIs closed from 3.5 mi east of Silver Lake (Amador Co) to 5 mi west of Picketts Jct (Alpine Co) – Due to snow – Motorists are advised to use an alternate route<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from 9 mi east of Pine Grove (Amador Co) to 3.5 mi east of Silver Lake (Amador Co)<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from 5 mi west of Picketts Jct (Alpine Co) to 3.5 mi east of Woodford (Alpine Co)<\/p>\n

SR 108<\/p>\n

[IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA & SIERRA NEVADA]
\nIs closed from 7.2 mi east of Strawberry (Tuolumne Co) to 5.8 mi west of the Jct of US 395 (Mono Co) \/Sonora Pass\/ – For winter – Motorists are advised to use an alternate route<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from to 6 mi east of Sonora to 7.2 mi east of Strawberry (Tuolumne Co)<\/p>\n

Chains or snow tires are required from the Jct of US 395 to 3.8 mi west of the Jct of US 395 (Mono Co)<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from 7 mi east of Long Barn to 7.2 mi east of Strawberry (Tuolomne Co)<\/p>\n

[YOSEMITE NAT’L PARK] For Yosemite Nat’l Park road information call 209-372-0200
\nSR 120<\/p>\n

[IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA & SIERRA NEVADA]
\nIs closed at the Yosemite National Park Boundary (Tuolumne) to 3.5 mi west of the North Jct of US 395 \/Tioga Pass\/ (Mono Co) – For the winter – Motorists are advised to use an alternate route<\/p>\n

Is closed from 5.2 mi east of the Jct of US 395 to 7.1 mi west of the Jct of US 6 (Mono Co) – For the winter – Motorists are advised to use an alternate route<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from 2.5 mi west of Groveland to Yosemite Nat’l Park Boundary (Tuolumne Co)<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from 3.8 mi west of the Jct of US 395 to the Jct of US 395(Mono Co)<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from the Jct of US 395 to 5 mi east of the Jct of US 395 (Mono Co)<\/p>\n

Chains are required on all vehicles except 4-wheel-drive vehicles with snow tires on all 4 wheels from 3.8 mi west of the Jct of US 6 to the Jct of US 6 (Mono Co)<\/p>\n

Please research chain control locations as Caltrans is currently working to update chain control descriptions for consistency with internet mapping, like Google Maps & Mapquest<\/p>\n

There is a dense fog advisory in effect from the Jct of I 5 to the San Joaquin\/Stanislaus Co line – Motorists are advised to drive with caution<\/p>\n

[YOSEMITE NAT’L PARK]
\nFor Yosenite Nat’l Park road information call 209-372-0200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arnold, CA…This highway information is the latest reported by Caltrans as of Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 at 09:34 AM. SR 4 [IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA] Is closed from 0.6 mi east of Lake Alpine to 7.2 mi west of the Jct of SR 89 \/Ebbetts Pass\/ (Alpine Co) – For the winter – Motorists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communities","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Fullscreen-capture-2172026-94459-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199188,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199180\/revisions\/199188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}