At some point will sections of California Highway 1 become too expensive to keep open?
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But the wild card now is the increasing frequency of wildfire along a roughly 100-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst’s hilltop castle at San Simeon to Carmel, which is stripping fragile hillsides of stabilizing vegetation and causing more slides and more serious washouts across a region known broadly as Big Sur.
“We understand our winters — we’re Big Sur people, and we know this happens,” said Patricia Nuñez, who on a recent day was working the register at the town’s minimart, which also rents cabins and oversees the Whale Watcher’s Café, a business known collectively as the Gorda Springs Resort. “This is an expensive, high-maintenance road. But it has to stay open because this is a place that is for more than just tourists. We live here.”
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