Devil’s Slide is a Ferrari-ad-worthy stretch of CA Highway 1, on the Pacific Coast between San Francsico and Half Moon Bay. It clings to the cliffs, a few hundred feet above the Pacific. On sunny days, it’s nothing short of stunning. When the fog hits, it’s the perfect Stephen King backdrop.
Over the weekend, a number of things started to, well, slide. Barry Parr has the coverage here. Highway 1 is now closed, indefinitely, between Montara and Pacifica.
For those into the whole schadenfreude thing, we set up a wiki to capture drive times between various points on the Coastside.
Barry and Darin Boville are doing a phenomenal job covering this. Check out Darin’s video, below. (This was shot yesterday, April 5, 2006.)
(photo credit: coastsider)
We had a similar thing here in South Africa a few years ago (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4D91330F934A15751C0A9669C8B63&sec=travel&pagewanted=print). The road was closed for quite a while before it opened to traffic again. Heck, there was even a couple ads featuring the falling rocks.