Big Sur: Highway 1 road closures lifting this weekend. But driving the entire span still impossible

Multiple rockslides, including one at Mill Creek on Highway 1, have hampered travel on Big Sur’s iconic coastline road. (Photo courtesy of Caltrans)

Over a month after the flurry of winter storms buffeted the Big Sur coastline, some road closures are being lifted on Highway 1 this weekend, an important step toward fully reopening one of the country’s most-treasured yet treacherous scenic drives.

That is good news for the small community of Central Coast residents who have been trapped between landslides on a 20-mile stretch of the winding cliffside south of Limekiln State Park and ending near the famous elephant seal viewing area in

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