Categories: Big Sur

Highway One is open!!!

Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.
District:	05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact:	Kevin Drabinski or Jim Shivers
Phone:	(805) 549-3138 or (805) 549-3237

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HIGHWAY 1 ON BIG SUR COAST FULLY REOPENED

ROCKSLIDE CLEARED JUST NORTH OF MON/SLO COUNTY LINE

MONTEREY COUNTY – Highway 1 on the Big Sur coast is fully reopened.

Caltrans contractors and maintenance teams have cleared a rockslide on Highway 1 at Post Mile 0.25 in southern Monterey County.

Highway 1 is fully open to travelers who may now travel without interruption from Monterey/Carmel area to Cambria/Morro Bay along the Big Sur Coast.

Crews were able to dislodge an undermined rock outcrop the afternoon of Friday October 30. Crews took advantage of the remaining daylight hours on Friday and worked through Saturday October 30 to clear over 20 truckloads of dirt and rocks.

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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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Little Philly says:

October 30, 2021 at 3:29 pm

Well done, guys. It's a great relief to all to be able to have options of traveling both north and south with pending rains.
W says:

October 30, 2021 at 4:00 pm

Yes, well done! Ready for the next one . . .

That slab must have been pretty loose for that backhoe to move it. Glad no one got hurt.
Nancy says:

October 30, 2021 at 4:54 pm

So it's Nacimiento Ferguson closed until 2023?