{"id":495955,"date":"2026-10-14T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495955\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:00:08","slug":"pacific-coast-highway-partially-closed-in-orange-county-after-crack-appears-in-hillside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495955\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Coast Highway partially closed in Orange County after crack appears in hillside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A portion of Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County is closed after a crack appeared in the hillside below the road, prompting closer inspection from officials after last weekend\u2019s storms and high surf.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial footage showed a crack on a slope between the ocean and the highway\u2019s southbound lane in Laguna Beach. On Tuesday, the California Department of Transportation closed one southbound lane from Reef Point Drive to Irvine Cove Drive as a precautionary measure until repairs are complete, Caltrans spokesperson Christianne Smith said in an email. <\/p>\n<p>What those repairs will entail, exactly, appears yet to be determined, as the agency reviews surveys and drone footage \u201cto determine the most effective path forward,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks, California\u2019s coastline has been battered by repeated high-surf events that have<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/socal\/daily-pilot\/news\/story\/2026-10-09\/massive-swells-flood-newport-laguna-beach-trigger-emergency-responses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> eroded beaches and damaged infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the safety of the traveling public and the workers on the roadway, we ask that the public follow all detour and speed limit signs in the area,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what caused the crack, but a Laguna Beach spokesperson said in an email that the recent storm surges could have eroded the base of the slope.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks, California\u2019s coastline has been battered by repeated high-surf events that have eroded beaches and damaged infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A portion of Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County is closed after a crack appeared in the hillside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,8707,37826,43898,192729,192730,101954,10,158053,611,593,6162,270,39077,1573,77395],"class_list":["post-495955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california-department","tag-coastline","tag-crack","tag-damaged-infrastructure","tag-high-surf-event","tag-hillside","tag-laguna-beach","tag-last-few-week","tag-orange-county","tag-pacific-coast-highway","tag-public","tag-repair","tag-slope","tag-smith","tag-southbound-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}