A landslide forced the closure of Vasquez Canyon Road after pavement uprooted 150 feet of road east of Bouquet Canyon Road.
Los Angeles County Public Works engineers and geologists are investigating the cause of the ground movement as soil continues to move and push the roadway into an upward slope more than six feet above the ground.
The problem was reported on Thursday at about noon.
Public works officials say Vasquez Canyon Road between Lost Creek Road and Vasquez Way will be closed until further notice.
Santa Clarita city officials are recommending Sierra Highway as an alternate route.
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I drive this twice a day getting kids to school. Thursday morning I drove over it and it was like a roller coaster. The kids and I all made a comment that it was not there the day before. That afternoon the road was closed.
That section has been covered many times and has had problems for 50 years that I know of… in the 70s it got covered and in the 60s … Same Spot…since we got the hell out of socialist southern communist calif in the late 70s I don’t know how many times since then it has mudded out?
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134 Comments
Teri Dow
Michael Baker
Ariana Em up my street lol
I was wondering if that happened near u!
Ariana Trujillo idk if they will let us walk over. This is freaking insane
Tim Dougherty
Norma Recinos
Isabel Garcia Polanco
Apurate Agamos maletas y now vamos con tu Mamy 😩😁
No no no
Matthew Pearlman Brie Pearlman
Maiko Agsaulio
Lam ko yan! Malapit sa Tretles and Grayson job.
Theresa McGrath Cowdray
Wow
Crazy
Roger Vincent
ty for sharing — what a mess
did you have a lot of rain?
No
They’ll get this fixed in a year or two. No worries. 😏
Ryan Guardino
So crazy
Caitlyn Alsobrook
Naturreeee baabbyyy
well that escalated quickly
But or infrastructure is fine… 😂
A dry landslide interesting
Edson Chimal
Omg!!!!
Who wants to buy a house on the wash now!
How did it get like that?
Brent Halcomb
I used to drive that road everyday,
Everyday
Whoa!
Not a problem when you have this👌🏾
I’m blaming it on El Niño! Lol
Chris Rodriguez Kristine Darabedyan
Omg how scary
Isn’t this close to your house?
Yes mam about 10 min or so
😳
Raul Syntek remember this road
No mames lets go riding to vheck it out hahaha
Off road with your red tracktor
Wow this morning at 9:00 AM it was just lifted a little bit, now look, amazing
Mary Carmen Reyes Albert Rueda
😑
Yikes!
Auntie Elysse check it out now 😳
Nani, showed that to me today, I am shocked, been on that road many a time
this is what i feel like after eating haggis!
Wow
GlobaL warming!
Kyle Sutton
😱😱😱😱
James Rueck that you in the bottom of the picture?
Nah I was wearing red. We made the 5 news
crazy
Jack Talavera
The things pretty close to the San Andreas Fault
Damn, that’s bad
Logan Greenfield
Helen is that the road that we took to Judys? 😱😅
Wow
Wow! Been there.
Cuando se deslizo
Jacob Abernethy
Caused by climate change
Malcolm SK
Quick Christina Monterrosa, call Kevin Bacon. You guys got Tremors!
Rob Taylor SOON
Denise Sanchez
It’s crazy scary. Too close to home. I wonder what it looks like right now. Hopefully not worse. The power poles are barely standing.
Oh man
This is crazy…just drove this road to school on Tuesday!
A couple of miles from my house!!
wow
Diana Dayton Danielle Dayton
Cool.
Damn global warming
Anna Holmes let’s go check it out sometime while we’re here
Yes! I saw this, let’s!
I think it is global warming. Just ask The president Lol
Yep I don’t know if I believe everything we hear
Kimberly Meyer
Nicole Carr
Wow
San Andreas Fault.
Tony Magana
Must be global warming….. we must be taxed more!
Looks like you’ll have to start paying more taxes now.
Crazy Cal. Roads. Stay safe!!!
I drive this twice a day getting kids to school. Thursday morning I drove over it and it was like a roller coaster. The kids and I all made a comment that it was not there the day before. That afternoon the road was closed.
I know where that is been drive that road so many times wow it happened unbelievable !
Margarita Hernandez 😱😓😳
Crazy. I used to drive this road to work. It’s probably so dry there that when they had that rain it loosened everything up
Thanks Obama!
Corrine Tsabetsaye show this to Joe
Does anyone have a more recent picture? I’m curious how much it’s changed since yesterday.
That section has been covered many times and has had problems for 50 years that I know of… in the 70s it got covered and in the 60s … Same Spot…since we got the hell out of socialist southern communist calif in the late 70s I don’t know how many times since then it has mudded out?
“The definition of ‘Insanity’ is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
Amy Rosics
That’s insane!
Shift happens.
😦😦😦😦😦
Jonathan Payne
I used to live a mile from there! That is bizarre.
Omg!!!!
Figure out the problem
Pretty funny!!
What is that ?
Robert
Cool if you had a 4×4 chevy truck
Molly Halloran Hills
I blame Obama.
it appears that the toe of a slow-moving bedrock landslide is thrusting upward, parallel to Vasquez Canyon Road, lifting it up vertically.
Looks like the up thrusting toe of a slow moving bedrock landslide
Crazy
Wow! I’ve taken my kids up on those rocks!
Earthquake soon
Lol. So much for driving on here again
Creepy
I’m agree about Earthquake soon! So glad I don’t live there anymore
Debbie your not stuck there are others roads u assume near your home???
OMG, is that recent?
The big one!!
Yikes! That’s scary!
Wow