State Transportation Secretary tours Highway 1 at Regent’s Slide

Is End Finally in Sight for Lengthy Highway 1 Closure? ‘We’ve Had a lot of Setbacks’

More than a year of Caltrans repair work on the massive slide blocking Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast has cleared more than 500,000 cubic yards of debris from the landslide — but officials say it’s still too early to say when the road will be clear to reopen. Since 2023, it’s been impossible to take Highway 1 all the way from San Luis Obispo County to Monterey due to a trio of landslides caused by severe winter weather. Regent’s Slide, the la…

State Transportation Secretary tours Highway 1 at Regent’s Slide

BIG SUR – California Transportation Secretary Toks Omishakin visited Regents Slide on Highway 1 last week, reaffirming the state’s commitment to the Big Sur community as repair work continues. Regent’s Slide — at post mile 27.8, and about 40 miles south of Carmel — has stymied unrestricted travel along the famed coast highway through Monterey County since it occurred Feb. 9, 2024. It started seeing top-down removal of slide material by crews on …

Progress being made on Big Sur highway repairs

The combination of Regent’s Slide and a previously cleared slide six miles south, has prevented through travel on the Big Sur coast since Jan. 15, 2023.