CA299 to GSSP

[Richard Navarrete]

I traveled from Oregon back to the Bay Area a few weeks ago. After leaving Fall River Mills I encountered major highway work with a sign saying up to a 90 minute delay. Luckily, I only had a 20 minute or so wait. I just thought I’d give a heads up to people traveling to GSSP. Oh! Now that I actually read the notice I see it says Monday - Thursday so GSSP travelers should be ok. Anyway, I hope you have a great time.

Richard

Pit One Grade Rockfall Mitigation: Located west of Fall River Mills in Shasta County. Crews are performing boulder removal and rockfall protection. Motorists should plan for significant delays reaching up to 90 minutes from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, with up to 13-minute delays outside active excavation times. This project is expected to be completed by November 2026. [1, 2, 3]

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[Aris Pope]

Yesterday I received an email from GSSP titled "GSSP Road Conditions through Fall River". 

It gave good detail of how to bypass the road construction.

Aris

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[pauldun...@aol.com]

I live in Fall River...

The delays on 299 are only "up to 30 minutes" M-F 6-6.   Most of the time its 10 min or less.  The go around route is longer than 20 minutes and can be dangerous with all high speed traffic using Cassel Rd as a detour.

Transparency is excellent all week with poor seeing until after midnight.  Unfortunately Sat and Sunday might be cloudy.

Paul Duncan 

[Aris Pope]

That's enough to sell me. Do you have any idea how the Big Valley Days event will effect the traffic for Saturday and Sunday?

On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 8:31 AM 'pauldun...@aol.com' via The Astronomy Connection (TAC) <sf-ba...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I live in Fall River...

The delays on 299 are only "up to 30 minutes" M-F 6-6.   Most of the time its 10 min or less.  The go around route is longer than 20 minutes and can be dangerous with all high speed traffic using Cassel Rd as a detour.

Transparency is excellent all week with poor seeing until after midnight.  Unfortunately Sat and Sunday might be cloudy.

Paul Duncan 

On Monday, July 6, 2026 at 1:03:29 PM UTC-7 Aris Pope wrote:

Yesterday I received an email from GSSP titled "GSSP Road Conditions through Fall River". 

It gave good detail of how to bypass the road construction.

Aris

On Mon, Jul 6, 2026, 12:09 PM 'RichardJ Navarrete' via The Astronomy Connection (TAC) <sf-ba...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I traveled from Oregon back to the Bay Area a few weeks ago. After leaving Fall River Mills I encountered major highway work with a sign saying up to a 90 minute delay. Luckily, I only had a 20 minute or so wait. I just thought I’d give a heads up to people traveling to GSSP. Oh! Now that I actually read the notice I see it says Monday - Thursday so GSSP travelers should be ok. Anyway, I hope you have a great time.

Richard

Pit One Grade Rockfall Mitigation: Located west of Fall River Mills in Shasta County. Crews are performing boulder removal and rockfall protection. Motorists should plan for significant delays reaching up to 90 minutes from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, with up to 13-minute delays outside active excavation times. This project is expected to be completed by November 2026. [1, 2, 3]

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[pauldun...@aol.com]

Big Valley Days should not affect traffic at all coming E299.   However, there is a fire happening in the area. It is the 3-1 Fire  It was 800+ acres at 11pm Tues.  Lots of air assault teams and should be out soon.  No update from Watch duty this morning.  

Lots of smoke lingering.  But I no longer see the main plume.

Paul Duncan

[Aris Pope]

The detour must be better. I'm currently at the road work and we've been waiting over an hour as we speak. For others I suggest following the email sent by GSSP. 

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[Peter Santangeli]

We were in that same line.

From what I read though it is Monday to Thursday. Worth verifying though.

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[Richard Ozer]

We sent a note on this. Currently the delay is 15 minutes. Cassel road is a viable bypass. 

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[Akarsh Simha]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 19:30 Richard Ozer <rich...@gmail.com> wrote:

We sent a note on this. Currently the delay is 15 minutes. Cassel road is a viable bypass. 

I got stuck at the light at about 12:15AM, first in line. Got a green light in about 6 minutes. The boys of driving when everyone else is asleep (or observing)

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[Aris Pope]

Akarsh silo that was you in the truck last night!? Lol

Aris

On Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 12:24 AM Akarsh Simha <akars...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 19:30 Richard Ozer <rich...@gmail.com> wrote:

We sent a note on this. Currently the delay is 15 minutes. Cassel road is a viable bypass. 

I got stuck at the light at about 12:15AM, first in line. Got a green light in about 6 minutes. The boys of driving when everyone else is asleep (or observing)

On Thu, Jul 9, 2026, 19:18 Peter Santangeli <pe...@santangeli.net> wrote:

We were in that same line.

From what I read though it is Monday to Thursday. Worth verifying though.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM Aris Pope <arispo...@gmail.com> wrote:

The detour must be better. I'm currently at the road work and we've been waiting over an hour as we speak. For others I suggest following the email sent b GSSP. 

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[Akarsh Simha]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 15:08 Aris Pope <arispo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Akarsh silo that was you in the truck last night!? Lol

Aris

Yes sir, guilty as charged.

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