The stronger-than-normal summer monsoon has been a blessing for many in Ouray County — for lawns and gardens and golf courses, for farmers and ranchers.

But for Ouray County Road and Bridge crews, it’s been more of a curse recently — and perhaps something to be cursed.

Persistent rain triggered multiple mudslides across the county in the last week, damaging and closing the county’s most popular high country road and an important secondary access road between Ridgway and Ouray and temporari...