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  2. Big Sur Coast Highway - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Closed-cone conifer forest - Wikipedia

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    The most widespread naturally of the closed-cone pines is bishop pine (Pinus muricata), which can be found along the coast from Humboldt County, California in the north to the northwestern corner of Baja California in the south. Knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata) forests can occur further inland, on dry, rocky soils. Monterey pine (Pinus radiata ...

  4. California State Route 1 - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. California's scenic Highway 1 to Big Sur opens to around-the ...

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    A section of California's scenic Highway 1 leading to the famous Big Sur coast reopened to around-the-clock traffic Friday after stabilization of a storm-triggered rockslide that dropped a chunk ...

  6. Crews escorting cars around damaged section of California's ...

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    Authorities urged motorists to avoid California's Highway 1 along the central coast after a section of the scenic route collapsed during an Easter weekend storm, forcing closures and stranding ...

  7. Stretch of California Highway 1 that collapsed in Big Sur ...

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    BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A new storm swept into California on Thursday and again forced closure of scenic Highway 1 in iconic Big Sur where one of its two lanes collapsed into the ocean after ...

  8. Coulter pine - Wikipedia

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    Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), or big-cone pine, is a conifer in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.Coulter pine is an evergreen conifer that lives up to 100 years. [2] It is a native of the coastal mountains of Southern California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico, occurring in mediterranean climates, where winter rains are infrequent and summers are dry with ...

  9. Part of famed California highway crumbles into the ocean - AOL

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    April 1, 2024 at 9:27 AM Caltrans District 5 Part of a roadway on California’s Big Sur coast crumbled into the ocean over the weekend after part of a cliff gave way in what officials are calling ...