CLEONE, 4/7/24 — Like the fabled mountaintop mail carrier, California State Parks crews worked in rain, storm and dark of night to speedily put back the road that connects MacKerricher State Park with Laguna Point. Big storms knocked out that scenic one-mile drive in January. Parks crews and contractors worked through even bigger storms, in the rain over long hours to completely repair and put in new blacktop and road reinforcements. Tourists and campers had been blocked for three months from driving out to the boardwalk, tidepools and sea lion viewing platform at Laguna Point.
On Easter Sunday, State Parks removed the gates. The Laguna Point parking lot has ranged from busy to overfull every day since, with two cars even watching the nonexistent sunset on a storming downpour of a Thursday afternoon.
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