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Overnight closures come to another Hwy. 1 location. Farther to the north, Caltrans will close Highway 1 overnight this week as it works on repairs to the road at Rocky Creek.. The closure will be ...
Crews are on site cleaning up debris and rocks from the highway. Update: Highway 1 to Big Sur closure expected to last until Monday morning Skip to main content
Highway 1 will not fully reopen on California’s Big Sur coast in 2024, Kevin Drabinksi, Caltrans public affairs officer said at a news conference at Ragged Point on Sept. 27, 2024.
State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California.At 656 miles (1,056 km), it is the longest state route in California, and the second-longest in the US after Montana Highway 200.
The Rocky Creek closure on California Highway 1 is seen March 31, 2024, in Monterey County, Calif., following heavy rain in the area. / Credit: Caltrans District 5 via AP
On May 20, 2017, the largest slide in the highway's history at Mud Creek blocked the road 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Gorda or about 60 miles (97 km) south of Monterey. The slide began 1,100 feet (340 m) up the side of the mountain and dumped an estimated 5,000,000 cubic yards (3,800,000 m 3 ), [ 86 ] or about 1.5 million tons of dirt, on to ...
However, the Sierra Club sued to stop construction, as California law requires that State Route 1 be restricted to two lanes in rural areas. The 101-foot-wide (31 m) road bed, complete with continuous uphill passing lanes, runaway truck ramps, and extra-wide shoulders, would be the widest two-lane road in the state. Again the state decided to ...
The department cited “further slide activity” and said that engineers are evaluating when construction can safely resume. Work at Hwy. 1 slide in Big Sur halted after crews notice new cracks ...