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Repair work on Big Sur's Highway 1 is expected to begin this week. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Stabilization efforts are expected to begin this week on a stretch of Highway 1 in Big ...
December 10, 2022 at 8:29 PM. Update, 11:56 a.m.: Highway 1 remains closed south of Posts, California to Ragged Point, California. The coast near Big Sur was reevaluated Sunday morning after ...
The next stage of repairs along the Rocky Creek Bridge "slip-out" on Highway 1 in Big Sur will again close the two-lane road, but the closures will occur only overnight, according to the ...
Big Sur Coast Highway. Big Sur Coast Highway is a section of California State Route 1 through the Big Sur region of California that is widely considered to be one of the most scenic driving routes in the United States, if not the world. It is both a National Scenic Highway and a California Scenic Highway, and was described by Australian painter ...
Nacimiento-Fergusson Road is the only road across the Santa Lucia Range on the Central Coast of California, connecting California State Route 1 and the Big Sur coast to U.S. Route 101 and the Salinas Valley. [1] The road is well-paved and maintained over its length, but is winding and has precipitous drops. It is widely regarded as one of the ...
1. McWay Falls is an 80-foot-tall (24 m) waterfall on the coast of Big Sur in central California that flows year-round from McWay Creek in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, about 37 miles (60 km) south of Carmel, into the Pacific Ocean. During high tide, it is a tidefall, a waterfall that empties directly into the ocean.
The ground underpinning a portion of Highway 1 in Big Sur fell away in March, forcing a closure of the roadway. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Along with the ocean views, this winding, narrow road, often cut into the face of towering seaside cliffs, dominates the visitor's experience of Big Sur. The highway has been closed more than 55 times by landslides, and in May 2017, a 2,000,000-cubic-foot (57,000 m 3) slide blocked the highway at Mud Creek, north of Salmon Creek near the San ...