Bluff • The rural communities of White Mesa, Bluff and Montezuma Creek are scheduled to gain high-speed internet access next year as a $17.5 million, multiagency project moves forward to bring fiber optic-based broadband to the southern part of San Juan County.
The first phase of the project will extend the fiber optic connection from Blanding, where it was installed in 2015, to Bluff and Montezuma Creek elementary schools.
The second phase, tentatively scheduled to begin in 2021, will bring broadband to the remote corners of the county, including the Navajo Nation towns of Oljato-Monument Valley and Navajo Mountain.