Highway 38 is now open in both directions to commercial trucks and buses. Commercial trucks and buses are also allowed to enter the Big Bear Valley using Highway 330 to Highway 18, the front grade, to Highway 38 through Fawnskin to their destination. Trucks and buses will not be allowed to exit the Valley using any route but Highway 38. Highway 18 to Lucerne Valley is still … [Read more...] about More Routes Open to Commercial Trucks and Buses
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Classes Cancelled for the Rest of the Week for Bear Valley Unified School District
Big Bear Lake, CA - According to the Bear Valley Unified School District today, the District is calling for two additional snow days of no school for Thursday and Friday, January 28th and 29th. Based upon visual inspection of the bus routes within the Big Bear Valley and the fact that many of these routes are still impassable for buses and unsafe for students to walk to their … [Read more...] about Classes Cancelled for the Rest of the Week for Bear Valley Unified School District
Pow! Longtime Local Dick Kun Compares Our Recent Snowstorms to the Legendary Winter of 1969
Big Bear Lake, CA -- Longtime Big Bear resident Dick Kun has been watching the snow fall for over 60 seasons and, as president of Big Bear Mountain Resorts, he’s become an expert on snow in the Big Bear Valley. He says that this last series of storms, which included four fronts over the course of a week, is as intense as the legendary storm of 1969, though we are better … [Read more...] about Pow! Longtime Local Dick Kun Compares Our Recent Snowstorms to the Legendary Winter of 1969
“We Got Mail!” Roads Re-Opened and Food, Fuel, Mail Arrive in the Big Bear Valley; Schools on Fourth Snow Day
Big Bear Valley, CA -- Our convoy of fuel, food and medical supplies made it up the mountain on Highway 38 yesterday, though it took several hours, and though the big rigs made it to Big Bear by the early evening, there were some delays as at least one of the trucks got stuck on the Deadman’s Curve portion of Big Bear Boulevard in Big Bear City. Still, food and fuel are … [Read more...] about “We Got Mail!” Roads Re-Opened and Food, Fuel, Mail Arrive in the Big Bear Valley; Schools on Fourth Snow Day
A Message for the Big Bear Community from the San Bernardino County Operational Areas Emergency Operations Center
In a cooperative effort to determine traffic flow and visitor accommodations, the San Bernardino County Operational Areas Emergency Operations Center yesterday [Monday, January 25] hosted a phone conference with multiple agencies to determine the safety of the public and the needs of Big Bear Valley, and also determined that Highway 38 would be used for a convoy of … [Read more...] about A Message for the Big Bear Community from the San Bernardino County Operational Areas Emergency Operations Center