{"id":2113,"date":"2011-06-04T02:44:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2011-06-10T20:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T03:11:11","slug":"angeles-crest-highway-open-to-the-angeles-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2011\/06\/04\/angeles-crest-highway-open-to-the-angeles-national-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Angeles Crest Highway Open to the Angeles National Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603027-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2114\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Cyclist and others gather for the opening ceremony and press release\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603027-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclist and others gather for the ACH highway 2 opening ceremony and press release \" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603027-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603027-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This morning, June 3, 2011, at 10 a.m. the Angeles Crest Highway was opened to motor traffic, bicycles and pedestrians. It has been closed since the Station Fire of 2009, while numerous repairs were made to the highway. It had been scheduled to open last November, but one of last winter&#8217;s heavy storms brought down the hillside onto the newly repaired road. Repairs have been completed on the section between La Canada and Clear Creek. Construction continues on a few sections beyond the Mt. Wilson road junction, but traffic is being flagged through the construction zone.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans also removed the winter closure of the highway at Islip Saddle. <strong>ACH is now open all the way through to Wrightwood. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of cyclists were among the first to pass the ceremonially opened gate, just outside the Angeles National Forest border. CORBA volunteers Steve Messer, Mike and Robin McGuire were also on hand, and took the opportunity to do some trailwork along the Grizzly Flat fire road after climbing Mt. Lukens.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a much-anticipated day, welcomed by hikers, mountain bikers, and everyone who just wants easier access to the forest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603045-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2115 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Angeles Crest Highway 2 opening\" src=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603045-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Angeles Crest Highway 2 opening\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603045-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110603045-Angeles-Crest-Highway-2-opening.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The highway opening has come just a few weeks after the May 16 opening of many trails that had been closed due to the Station Fire. A <a title=\"open trails in the angeles national forest\" href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2011\/05\/13\/angeles-national-forest-trails-to-open-may-16-2011\/\">complete list of opened trails<\/a> can be found in our\u00a0<a title=\"Angeles National Forest Trails to Open May 16, 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2011\/05\/13\/angeles-national-forest-trails-to-open-may-16-2011\/\">previous story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, June 3, 2011, at 10 a.m. the Angeles Crest Highway was opened to motor traffic, bicycles and pedestrians. It has been closed since the Station Fire of 2009, while numerous repairs were made to the highway. It had been scheduled to open last November, but one of last winter&#8217;s heavy storms brought down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12],"tags":[209,35,208,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}