Starting next week, according to a DOT press release, US 63 will be closed between IA 8 and IA 96. It’s for a (very needed) asphalt resurfacing project and discussed more in this blog post. Toledo-Gladbrook traffic is fine, but Traer-Gladbrook will be complicated.
The official detour for 63 starts at the Garwin corner and uses E29, V18, and IA 8. BUT! The west half of IA 8 itself is officially detoured away from there, via IA 21, D65, and US 63, for at least two months. (Only about a 1-mile segment is totally off limits.)
So, technically if clumsily, northbound 63 will be coming into Traer from the west, while westbound 8 will be coming into Traer from the north. It’s kind of reminiscent of the Depression-era detour maps issued while so many roads in Iowa were being paved.