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

By Kristen J. Bender From The Mercury News

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.