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Road work: gravel surface, miscellaneous construction listed on US-85 from May 12, 2026

The South Dakota Department of Transportation lists Road work: gravel surface, miscellaneous construction at US-85 from 12.25 miles south to 12 miles south of Junction South Dakota 168, with a listed start of May 12, 2026.

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Road work: gravel surface, miscellaneous construction is listed at US-85 from 12.25 miles south to 12 miles south of Junction South Dakota 168, according to the South Dakota Department of Transportation's traveller-information feed.

The feed gives the route as US-85, the reference milepost as 67.046 and the affected direction as Both Directions.

The feed publishes a listed start of May 12, 2026, 5 a.m. MDT / 6 a.m. CDT and a listed end of Oct. 30, 2026, 8:15 a.m. MDT / 9:15 a.m. CDT. Each is one instant shown in both of South Dakota's zones — Mountain first, Central second; they are the same moment. The feed names a route and not a zone, so 605Buzz does not pick one for you.

Whether this work is currently underway is not stated in this text: it depends on the time you are reading, and the department is the authority.

The feed publishes coordinates of 44.9029583345126, -103.708881147005 for this record. Those are the department's own figures, reproduced as published; 605Buzz does not geocode.

The department's own description of the work, reproduced without changes as published in the feed:

The following road construction project is in progress: gravel surface and miscellaneous construction adjacent to the roadway with speed limit 25 mph and width limit 16 ft until 8:15 AM MDT Friday, October 30, 2026. Two-way traffic will be routed around the construction site using a temporary gravel diversion with reduced speeds.

Drivers should use caution and be prepared for construction equipment and workers near the roadway.

For information or questions about a construction project, please find contact information for our SDDOT Area Offices at:

That paragraph is the department's wording at the time this record was last read, including any dates or restrictions inside it.

The feed links dot.sd.gov/inside-sddot/region-area-offices/region-and-area-offices/ for this project.

605Buzz has not independently verified conditions on this road. Schedules change with weather and contractor progress, and the department is the authority; check SD511 before travelling.

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How the times are shown

The feed publishes start and end as numeric timestamps, so each is shown as a clock reading in both of South Dakota's zones.

How the status is decided

Whether work is currently underway is not written into the article text, deliberately: it depends on when you are reading. 605Buzz computes it from the listed dates each time the page loads rather than storing an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing. The status at the top of the page is that computation, not a claim the department made.

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605Buzz has published 1 road record from the South Dakota Department of Transportation within about 16 miles of this location with a listed start on or before this date. One of them states an end date on or after it. SD511 is the department's own live conditions service.

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