Healthy Roads

La Plata County, Colorado — Infrastructure & Conditions Portal

Welcome to Healthy Roads

Healthy Roads is an independent monitoring project covering the private mountain roads of La Plata County, Colorado — 5.15 miles of chip-sealed and unpaved roads serving a small mountain community.

This site brings together three years of infrastructure records, computer vision video analysis, and ground-level inspection photography in one place. It is not an official county or HOA resource — it's a neighbor-driven effort to document road conditions and share that information openly.

What's here

  • Roads Before Chip Seal — Drone footage of all 5 roads captured in July 2025, before chip seal was applied
  • Culverts & Drainage — 109 culverts with photo history back to 2024, plus ditch cleaning records by year
  • Surface Inspection — GPS-tagged photos covering potholes, cracking, chip seal adhesion, and edge loss from a 2026 survey
  • Vegetation Detection — Road edge encroachment detected frame-by-frame from 4K camera video, broken down by road
  • Edge Gradient — Shoulder drainage profile showing where water drains properly, pools, or runs toward the road
  • Fire Mitigation — Hydrant locations from La Plata County GIS and fuel reduction records by year

Use the navigation on the left to explore each topic. Click Healthy Roads in the header to return to this page at any time.

ⓘ This site is under active development. Data and features will expand as new surveys are completed. Questions? garyhein@gmail.com