ESTACADA, OR -- Highway 224 reopened Sunday, near Estacada, following nearly two years of clean-up work.

The highway was heavily damaged in the Labor Day wildfires of 2020. Oregon’s Department of Transportation says crews cleared debris from miles of ditches, repaired and replaced 11 miles of guardrails, removed tens of thousands of dead and dying trees along the road, and replaced scores of highway signs destroyed by fire.