Will Big Sur Headaches Never End? Another Partial Road Collapse Adds to the Coastal Mecca’s Woes
Closing the highway is costing restaurants and other businesses millions.
Vehicles are led through a closed section of Highway 1 as Caltrans crews assess damage after the road slipped out south of the Rocky Creek Bridge on April 2, 2024, in Big Sur, California. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS
BIG SUR, Calif.—Restaurants are temporarily closed. Hotels aren’t taking new bookings. State parks and campgrounds are shuttered, and people in the small coastal enclave are on edge after a large chunk of California’s iconic Highway 1 fell into the ocean last weekend. Again.
