Highway 1 is closed indefinitely from Palo Colorado Road to Rocky Creek Bridge, the California Department of Transportation said on social media after a new landslide eroded part of the roadway.
This year’s heavy storms caused landslides in Big Sur, closing most of Highway 1 in the area. Now, parts of the highway are expected to partially reopen in July but Caltrans says there’s still one major slide delaying a full reopening.
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“Rat Creek,” the blogger Kate Woods Novoa tweeted Thursday, “is not looking good.”
Woods Novoa attached a couple of pictures by Dave Nelson as proof:
Rat Creek, at the southern end of Big Sur in the burn scar, is not looking good. Photos by Dave Nelson pic.twitter.com/290okF7Jdi
Rat Creek is about 257 km south of San Francisco. It runs down from the mountains and underneath a section of State Route One. It looks pretty dry on its satellite image in Google Maps, but it’s been a rainy few days in California, over an inch in the past 24 hours in nearby San Simeon.