California's State Route 1, or the Pacific Coast Highway, may be America's second most-romanticized road behind Route 66. Its winding turns and Pacific Ocean-overlooking views are some of the most spectacular on the planet—it's little wonder the route inspired a song by The Beach Boys. But the PCH's location on the battered coast means it often takes the full force of incoming storms, and over the years has proven at times unstable, with multiple closures due to landslides occurring throughout the 2010s. Earlier this week, nature struck again, this time not by making the road impassable with mudslides but by washing away some of its surface altogether in a landslide.
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