Highway One Closure Update #2, 1/20/17

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State Route 1 IS NOW closed from Ragged Point (SLO PM 72.87) to Anderson Canyon Bridge (MON PM 35.4) due to rock/mudslides in multiple locations. The newest slide is located at PM 35, requiring the closure to move from Lucia (PM 23) to Anderson Canyon Bridge (PM 35.4).

LOCALS AND GUESTS MAY TRAVEL SOUTH ONLY UNTIL 4 PM TODAY, FROM ESALEN (PM 32.4) TO BE ESCORTED BY A PLOW TRUCK AROUND PAUL’S SLIDE (PM 21.6) IN ORDER TO TAKE COUNTY ROAD “NACIMIENTO FERGUSON” (PM 18.90) SOUTH, AS THERE IS AN ACTIVE SLIDE AND FULL CLOSURE AT MUD CREEK (PM 8.8) . NO NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC WILL BE ALLOWED.

Motorists may travel south on Hwy. 1 from Carmel to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park (PM 35.84) or travel north from Cambria to Ragged Point.

In addition there is a full closure on Hwy. 1 at Mud Creek (MON PM 8.88) due to a mud/rock slide.

ROADWAY IS NOT PASSABLE IN BETWEEN THE CLOSURES AT THIS TIME.

Another update will be provided TOMORROW by noontime, Saturday, Jan. 21 or sooner if conditions change.

Susana Z. Cruz nature-flower-blue-motif[1]
Caltrans District 5
Public Information Officer/

bigsurkate

Appointed appellate counsel for indigent defendants (retired.) I have lived in Big Sur since 1984, first on the north coast, and on the South Coast since 1989.

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  • I was in town this AM and the CHP website mentioned a new slide at PM 32 which is just S of Esalen. I waited 20 minutes for a fallen tree in the Highlands and got to this slide just before 10am. PM 35, as you said. I saw some people crawling over it who turned out to be friends. I followed them back over and they gave me a ride home. I hear now an official presence is preventing people from walking over it.

    • And that's BEFORE the 5" expected tonight into tomorrow night. Nothing but fun, boys and girls.

      bigsurkate

  • wow that is really bad. Another storm tomorrow. It is really bad over there especially because of the fire. The trees are all gone and the water is just going to flow. Sad. Wow wow wow

  • We are thinking of you in Big Sur. Glad for the rain but sorry that it had to come ALL at once. We hope to attend the workshop the first of March but it is looking mighty bleak....but we are keeping the Om going.

  • Heads-up to folks on Plaskett Ridge Rd, a big tree is over the road, just below Sunshine Alley, .8 mi from Hwy 1.

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