Highway 36 Reopens to One-Way Traffic Control Following Slide Near Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park
Crews work overnight to clear debris from a slide on Highway 36 near Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park. One-way traffic control is in place as cleanup continues. (Photo: Caltrans District 1)
Highway 36 is now open to one-way traffic control west of Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, according to Caltrans District 1. The road, from mile markers 15.7 to 16.3, was closed by a slide last night around 10 p.m.
Caltrans crews worked overnight to clear the roadway and stabilize the area. Travelers should expect delays of up to 30 minutes.
Drivers are urged to proceed with caution and be prepared for changing conditions as crews remain on-site to ensure the roadway’s safety.
Earlier: Highway 36 Closed West of Grizzly Creek Redwoods
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It’s nice the state can do its job. Where is the county road crews? Southern trinity and so hum roads are worse then I have ever seen .in my fifty years here the county has the most money it’s ever had, and provides less then ever before. You supervisors have ran the county into the ground. And the worst economy in fifty years.
😂😂😂 that’s funny
Thems some fancy economics you spoutin’.
You do know that it’s a state highway and only state employees can work on a state road? County works on county roads.
Going to be a big job (ala summertime) to stop that slide.
Slide goes waaay up the mountain. Not a lot of working room at the bottom either.
Meanwhile… another four or five storms are stacked up in the Pacific.
Supposed to be another 10″ of rain by the new year.
Batten down the hatches.
6.7″ of precipitation is predicted for Crescent City through the next 8 days.
Nice work GR Sundberg, Inc. Much blessings for keeping it clear so our sleds may pass through.
I would think some fast growing vegetation would have helped with that. They spent all summer on that job too.
It’s a fucked up situation. They took a lot of it down to bedrock over the summer. Nothing is growing quickly on that from August to now.
There was still plenty of steep hill above the last slide that they likely thought they couldn’t afford to deal with last summer or they never would have gotten anything down. The netting they put down actually caught the first slide in that area this winter and kept the road open. I have no idea how much more mountain remains above the slide, but it looks like a lot.
This section of road is going to be an ongoing pain in the ass of anyone who drives this section regularly.
Luckily, locals coming in to the coast from beyond the slide can always take kneeland rd out of bridgeville to either redwood house, if they are heading further west on the 36, or all the way to freshwater if they are headed to the north humboldt bay region. Beautiful drives out that way as well, and very limited risk of slides.
One way (east or west, which?) or the more precise: one lane, two-way controlled.
Pedantic and picayune is fun. I had no idea.
Would be nice on important stories like this if a map was added. it is a large County and many people are not as familiar with the backroads or even resources to find routes etc. as long time locals assume or care about and seems an easy add for you all.
It says mile markers 15-16 on highway 36 and names a major state park that it’s near. I agree that maps are fun. But this is not an obscure back road.
quickmap.dot.ca.gov for anytime you wonder about road conditions. Very easy to use.
299 and SR 36 are the ONLY east-west routes from US101 to I-5. I thought you were an old-timer from your handle. These are not obscure roads and are clearly marked on any local road map and are essential arteries for travel and commerce. Well, OK, a small thumbnail map. There is a lot of land between the two roads. While on-line anyway, why not punch up a road map?