Marathon will close Wawawai River Road

Wawawai River Road will be closed for seven hours Saturday for the 32nd annual Snake River Canyon Half Marathon.

Roughly 500 runners will take to the road for 13.1 miles. The race begins at Wawawai Landing. Entrants go upstream for six miles, turn around and come back.

County public works director Mark Storey said so many people signed up for the run this year they decided to close the road.

“We didn’t realize there would be that many. It grew by several hundred,” Storey said.

Palouse Road Runners hosts the event each year.

“It’s the same half marathon they’ve run for the past several years,”...