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Cool, will auch den Trail gehen. Weiß jemand wo der startet ?

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The path, which begins in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park to the north and winds up a 500-foot ravine to Highway 1 to the south, was opened to residents March 27. California State Parks completed the project in just three weeks with the help of locals who were desperate to travel up and down the coast after the bridge failed.

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Caltrans is hoping a $40 million rebuilding project will have state Highway 1 at Mud Creek reopened by late summer 2018.
A mudslide on May 20 spilled more than 5 million cubic yards of rocks and dirt onto the highway and into the ocean. Caltrans said it’s the largest slide ever along the Big Sur coast.
“The landslide at Mud Creek is one of the largest in California’s history. We are working to safely rebuild the road in this complex and unpredictable area,” said Caltrans District 5 Director Tim Gubbins in a statement.
Caltrans announced plans to build over the slide earlier this summer using a series of “embankments, berms, rocks, netting, culverts and other stabilizing material.”
The timeline for the reopening and rebuilding of the road is also dependent on this winter’s weather conditions, Caltrans officials said.

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The new Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur is set to open Oct. 13, about eight months after heavy winter storms created a buckle in the road over a 320-foot drop, Caltrans said.
The bridge is a vital link in California’s coastal Highway 1 drive. When it was closed in February, it cut off a key route from Southern California to the Big Sur community, whose economy depends heavily on tourism.
Additional storms pounded the Central Coast and created mudslides south of the community in the months that followed, further isolating the town.
Caltrans said replacing the bridge cost $24 million. Repairs of winter storm damage to Californian’s roads, bridge and water infrastructure will likely cost upward of $1 billion.
The new bridge, rising 320 feet above Pfeiffer Canyon, uses steel girders rather than the columns that were used originally and became compromised during the storms, Caltrans said. An exact time for the bridge’s official opening next week has not been announced.

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The California coast along the famed Big Sur area was reshaped in May 2017 when a huge landslide buried a quarter-mile section of the world-famous California Highway 1.
Million of tons of rock and mud covered this stretch of one of the most scenic routes in the world just a mile southeast of the small town of Gorda, CA, located about 60 miles south of the tourist hub of Monterey.