SF News Big Sur Tribe Gets Little Sur Land Back, 250 Years After It Was Colonized Yes, there is a Little Sur, and 1,200 acres of it are going back to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County in the first-ever granting back of their lands.
SF News Two Dead After Rental Car Plunges Off Big Sur Cliff and Catches Fire Two people are dead after their car went off a cliff and crashed 300 feet below the roadway along Highway 1 south of Big Sur early Thursday.
SF News Man Killed By Park Rangers In Big Sur Was Prime Suspect In Milpitas Freeway Murder A man who was fatally shot Saturday by park rangers in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park was wanted in connection with a shooting earlier this month on highway 680 in Milpitas.
SF News Big Sur Resident Launches, Removes Instagram Account To Shame Disrespectful Tourists Now that tourists have come swarming back wanting to take selfies from Big Sur's scenic vistas, one local resident launched an Instagram account solely devoted to shaming tourists who misbehave or otherwise disrespect the landscape.
SF News Big Sur To Reopen To Traffic Next Week As Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge Gets Replaced The wait is over and long-suffering Big Sur area businesses will once again be accessible from Highway 1 starting next Friday, the 13th of October. Caltrans crews have been working around the clock
SF News Massive Landslide In Big Sur Won't Get New Road For At Least A Year #BigSurLandslide fly around May 27, preliminary computer animation. Roughly 13 acres of new #California land! pic.twitter.com/PoKZL5WZBI— USGS Coastal Change (@USGSCoastChange) June 1, 2017 The Mud Creek Slide in the southern
SF News Video: Time-Lapse Of Big Sur Bridge Construction Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, which has been in the process of being replaced after the former began collapsing into the canyon earlier this year, is now slated for an early October
SF News They're Just Going To Build A Road On Top Of That Big Sur Landslide If you can't dig under a problem, you may as well climb over it. That's what Caltrans is concluding with regard to that quarter mile of Pacific Coast Highway 1 that was completely
SF News Trail Opens To Public Making Big Sur Accessible Again, By Foot Anyway A trail that had previously only technically been open to locals has now been made accessible to the public, giving at least Northern Californians and tourists coming from the north a way in
SF News What It's Like To Walk Around Big Sur These Days, With Almost No Cars Into the Big Surreal: 36 Hours in California’s Isolated, Lonely Island https://t.co/Kggyi9xAQL— KQED (@KQED) June 5, 2017 California Report reporter John Sepulvado, along with a friend, decided to spend
SF News Big Sur Landslide Added 13 Acres To Coastline #BigSurLandslide fly around May 27, preliminary computer animation. Roughly 13 acres of new #California land! pic.twitter.com/PoKZL5WZBI— USGS Coastal Change (@USGSCoastChange) June 1, 2017 Scientists with the US Geological Survey, who
SF News No One Knows How To Clean Up Big Sur Landslide, Or How Much It's Going To Cost Landslide leaves engineers to ponder options for Highway 1 in #BigSur. via @kurtisalexanderhttps://t.co/H3Vkbpu8sv pic.twitter.com/5MM76W4DyJ— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 26, 2017 No doubt, eventually, it will get cleaned up
SF News Big Sur Landslide Being Called The Biggest In State History Massive landslide brings new level of isolation to Big Sur https://t.co/mwFBhy5Hvd pic.twitter.com/H2MsAmiByU— SFGate (@SFGate) May 23, 2017 Last weekend's massive landslide at Mud Creek along Highway 1
SF News Video: Massive Mudslide Cuts Off Yet Another Part Of Hwy 1 Near Big Sur .mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%} More bad news today out of Big
SF News Whale With Head Entangled In Metal Frame Headed To Big Sur, Volunteers Sought This is no ordinary whale watch in the Monterey area. Instead, it's what could be a life or death rescue mission. A gray whale last sighted off Piedras Blancas on Wednesday and expected
SF News Video: Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge Collapses In Big Sur After several days of trying, Caltrans crews succeeded in knocking the condemned Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge into the canyon on Saturday. Two thirds of it anyway. As CBS 5 reports, most of the bridge
SF News Wrecking Ball Fails To Wreck Crumbling Big Sur Bridge Another great shot from Stan Russell of Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on #Hwy1 pic.twitter.com/28fVK0u4AM— Caltrans District 5 (@CaltransD5) March 9, 2017 We're gonna need a bigger wrecking ball. The condemned Pfeiffer
Arts & Entertainment How HBO's 'Big Little Lies' Fudges Monterey Geography It's hardly the largest deception on Big Little Lies, the HBO drama starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Shailene Woodley as a quartet of Monterey mothers, but it's an emblematic one.
SF News Bridge In Big Sur Gets Wrecking Ball Treatment, Highway 1 To Remain Interrupted For Rest Of Year The wrecking ball continues to drop on the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur. pic.twitter.com/hYNWSvd6sF— Tommy Wright (@WrightScribe) March 13, 2017 Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, which buckled and
SF News Photos Show Condemned Bridge That Promises To Shut Off Big Sur Tourism Yet Again, For Months Bridge on Highway 1 south of Monterey has pretty much given up ... canyon slid & ground shifted https://t.co/hmwakkBfCx— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) February 23, 2017 Big Sur was hit hard last
SF News Landslides Cut Off Big Sur Tourism, Shut Down Highway 1 For Three Weeks Significant mud- and landslides, including huge boulders and piles of rock, have cut off the community of Big Sur from the world for the second time in six months as a section of
SF News $20 Million Upgrade Of Big Sur's Esalen Institute Nears Completion Guests paying out the wazoo for retreats at the Esalen Institute will have fewer complaints about rooms and food going forward, aspects of the spiritual center that have heretofore been secondary to majestic
SF News Soberanes Fire Officially Becomes Costliest Firefight In US History, Topping $200 Million As we reach the two-month mark on the Soberanes Fire, burning just inland of Big Sur and sparked miles to the north on July 22, the Associated Press reports that the fire has
SF News Feds Taking Command Of Soberanes Fire, Containment Now Not Expected Until September 30 Now topping 81,000 acres, the massive, four-week-old Soberanes Fire in Big Sur and to the east continues to burn and spread as Cal Fire estimates they have it 60 percent contained. Over
SF News Soberanes Fire Fells Trees In Big Sur, Closes Highway 1 Monday We learned Friday that the large and still growing Soberanes Fire was likely to wreak some havoc for tourism in particular traffic on Highway 1, which is the only road in and out
