Massive Big Sur Slide May Keep Highway 1 Closed for a Year
“It’s definitely breathtaking, it’s definitely massive,” she said of the landslide caused by millions of tons of dirt and rock tumbling down the coastal hillside.
Officials say the slide created a new 16-acre land mass sticking out from the Big Sur coast.
Highway 1 remains closed at Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County, just south of the Monterey County border. The highway is closed to the north at Big Sur Station as work continues on Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge. Some Big Sur businesses and parks before the closure are accessible on Highway 1 to travelers who head south from Carmel. Parts of Big Sur are also accessible via Nacimiento-Fergusson Road.
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