Jennifer Kerrigan

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Jim Carlton |Jennifer Kerrigan |Max Knight

As California’s most majestic highway remains closed, this roadside community tries to hold on. ‘It’s weird, dude.’BIG SUR, Calif.—Hillary Lipman looked out from a gas station at the nearly empty California Highway 1 and shook his head in frustration over a road closure that has dragged into a third year. Business at his Shell station has dropped as much as 80% since the first of a series of landslides shut off the southern access to Big Sur in January 2023.