Road to Calif. state park closed after landslide, earthquakes

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Park officials describe the situation as 'active,' warning of an ongoing landslide risk.

is closed"for weeks or more," following a landslide that buckled pavement and jeopardized several old-growth redwood trees. The landslide is possibly the result of both heavy rain and a series of recent North Coast earthquakes.

The closure on Mattole Road, which went into effect early last week, starts about 1.5 miles west of the U.S. Highway 101 juncture. Drivers approaching on the west side of the road closure are advised to head west and north on Mattole Road toward Ferndale, then connect with U.S. 101 there. "There is a large piece of land … more or less an entire hillside, that goes up to the ridgeline that is moving downslope, and so the road transverses across that hill slope and is moving with it," Marnin Robbins, interpretive program manager with California State Parks’ North Coast Redwoods District, told SFGATE."We don’t yet know the underlying cause.”"It’s a very dramatic road," Robbins described.

 

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