UPDATE, 2/26/26 – All roads are open or under one lane traffic control. Travel safe!
MENDOCINO CO., 2/26/26 – Multiple state highways and local roads were impacted by a storm that brought heavy rain to Mendocino County.
Here is a summary of current major traffic impacts as of Thursday afternoon:
Highway 1 near Elk — Under traffic control
Open under one lane traffic control. Read more.
Highway 1 between Point Arena and Manchester — Open
Caltrans announced the highway was open on Wednesday around 9:30 p.m. Read more.
Highway 175 in Hopland — Open
Caltrans confirmed at 6 a.m. Thursday that Highway 175 was open again. Read more.
Highway 128 near Navarro — Open
The CHP reported that the highway was open around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
Highway 20 — Open
Traffic control has ended and both lanes are open as of 8:45 a.m. Thursday, Caltrans said.
Talmage Road near Babcock Lane — Open
The CHP reports as of 8:41 a.m. that this intersection is now open.
Motorists can check current conditions at https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/ or by calling 1-800-427-7623.
This article will be updated as conditions change. Drive safe and when there are flood waters, “turn around, don’t drown.”
You cannot use Eureka Hill Road and Mountain View Road as alternate routes around the flooding on Highway 1 in Point Arena (to get to Manchester.) Not sure where you got that information from, and why you deleted a previous comment to that effect under this post.
We removed it, thank you. I think we had Fish Rock on the brain. Bad road journalism! Thank you for calling us out!
We saw your email and other comment, thanks Karen!
“Motorists can use Eureka Hill Road and Mountain View Road as alternate routes”
No, they cannot, since those roads do not intersect. Eureka Hill dead-ends at a locked gate.
We removed it, thank you. I think we had Fish Rock on the brain. Bad road journalism! Thank you for calling us out! On Facebook…too.