Storm damage prompts closure of Forest Road 1N45
Release Date: Mar 16, 2019
Contact(s): Zach Behrens, 909-382-2788
After assessing storm damage along Forest Road 1N45 (Santa Ana River Rd.), officials with San Bernardino National Forest have issued a Forest Order closing the route between Highway 38 and Glass Road in the Barton Flats area of the San Bernardino Mountains. The damage includes sink holes, mud and rock slides, cracked pavement, undercut pavement, sloughing and fallen trees.
Repairing 1N45 is another priority project for the forest. Damage assessments are continuing and staff hope repair work will begin within the next month, weather permitting.
The Forest Order begins today, March 16, 2019. It expires on March 15, 2020, but will be lifted earlier, once necessary repairs are completed. Special use permit holders, such as recreational cabin owners and organization camps, are exempt from this order.
For more information on the 1N45 road closure, call the Mountaintop Ranger District at 909-382-2790.
For more information on road damages throughout the forest caused by February 2019 storms, visit InciWeb.