For the first time in three years, California's iconic Highway 1 has fully reopened from the Big Sur coastline to San Luis Obispo County, and it's expected to bring an influx of visitors. On Wednesday,

Dust rises from Regent’s Slide as Caltrans work teams clear debris from the slope, pictured Thursday, July 17, 2025. Regent’s Slide closed Highway 1 around 27 miles north of the San Luis Obispo-Monterey county line in February 2024. Joan Lynch [email protected]

On Jan. 15, 2026, Highway 1 on the Central Coast is set to reach a milestone that nobody anticipated or wanted: three years of closure on a 6.8-mile stretch of road just north of San Simeon blocking through traffic coming south from LA or north from San ...

Sometimes, the best place you can go is a dead end. Especially when that dead end is surrounded by crashing surf on empty beaches, dramatic cliffs and lonely trails through forests thick with redwoods. That's the situation along Big Sur's South Coast right ...

Motorists can drive along the coast from the Bay Area to Southern California again after massive slide is cleared.