Seacliff State Beach landmark had been drawing visitors to the “cement ship” since 1930
In the final chapter for one of the most venerable landmarks along Monterey Bay, crews with excavators and other heavy equipment on Monday tore apart the 500-foot-long wooden pier at Seacliff State Beach in Aptos.
“This is a symbol of our community,” said Mando Morlos, a Corralitos wedding photographer who fished for halibut and salmon from the pier when he was a boy, and wants to see it rebuilt. “It’s on postcards. It’s printed on our T-shirts. There’s almost nobody alive who remembers what it was like before it was here.”
The Seacliff campground featured 63 spots for RVs. Only feet from the sand, it was among the most popular campground at any state park in California, usually booked full every day of the year by visitors from across the United States. Spohrer has been no stranger to weather-related disasters in recent years. Three years ago, nearly all of Big Basin Redwoods State Park burned, including campgrounds, ranger homes and the historic park headquarters building, in the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. Big Basin has reopened, but it will be several years before facilities there are reconstructed.
Crews will have all the pier’s decking removed by the end of this week, said Dan Lawson, with Granite Construction, the contractor for the job. After that, he said, they will dig down 6 feet into the sand around each wooden piling, and saw it off, then cover the hole back up. Diving crews will do the same with the underwater piers.
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