Header photo by bigsurkate
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TIMBER FIRE INFORMATION:
Timber Fire Information
Email: 2026.timber@firenet.gov
Phone: 831-285-7006
https://www.readymontereycounty.org/emergency/incident-archive/2026-timber-fire
For donations for fire victims, Community Association of Big Sur. https://CABigSur.org
For donations to Big Sur Fire (who have really been on it everywhere) bigsurfire.org
thebigsurbigshare.com
AS OF 9/1 – Highway 1 remains closed from mile marker 56 (south of the Little Sur River) on the north end to mile marker 0.09 (just north of the San Luis Obispo County line) on the south end. No estimated time for reopening has been provided..
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Links for phone users who can’t see the links to the right without scrolling through two years of posts. I’ll start with just a few, but if you have others you wish to see here, let me know.
Big Sur Maps (3) with slide names, locations, etc.: https://bigsurkate.blog/big-sur-interactive-highway-maps-with-slide-names-mile-markers/
Caltrans Interactive Map: https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/
CHP dispatch: https://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx
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Interactive Highway Map with Mile Markers and slide names is to the right, under “Pages” first one *Big Sur Interactive Maps... if the following link doesn’t work. *Big Sur Interactive Slide Maps will answer any questions you may have about where something is in relation to something else.
MY DIRECT EMAIL IS: kwnovoa(AT)mac(dot)com
Some local humor on display or Caltrans needs to review their hiring practices.
A Bixby Bridge sign is on the southbound side of the Granite Canyon Bridge/ highway 1. Got to make the tourists ask what’s the big deal with this bridge. LOL