The fence that hid the ocean: Fort Bragg and Caltrans agree to change it

FORT BRAGG, CA., 8/18/26  — For a few weeks this summer, if you drove into Fort Bragg from the south, the ocean was just there. The old wooden fence along the west side of Main Street had come out for Caltrans’ sidewalk job, and between the Noyo bridge and Cypress Street, the headlands and the water sat in the windshield where a fence used to be.

Then the new fence went up. Considerably taller, by the reckoning of the people who drive past it every day. Solid. No more view.