BIG SUR – Slope stabilization efforts at Regent’s Slide on Highway 1 have been effective in helping sustained excavation activity at the site where traffic along the Big Sur Coast remains blocked.

Regent’s Slide — at post mile 27.8, and about 40 miles south of Carmel — has blocked travelers along the famed coast highway through Monterey County since it occurred Feb. 9, 2024. Crews began top-down removal of slide material on April 30, 2024. Regent’s Slide originated 450 feet above the roadway, displacing material that engulfed Highway 1 and continued down to the beach and ocean below.

Over time, continued slide activity in and around the repair site, along with the height, steepness and instability of the slide area, has been a challenge crews have faced, sometimes bringing work to a halt

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