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Traffic on Interstate 5 was being escorted Friday morning over the Grapevine, which had been closed for more than a day by heavy snow.
Starting around 11 a.m., the California Highway Patrol was leading vehicles on the 40-mile stretch of the freeway between Grapevine and Castaic, including Tejon Pass.
Also reopened on Friday morning, according to the CalTrans website:
- The 45-mile segment of Interstate 15 between Baker, California, and the Nevada state lane. It had been closed Thursday evening because of snow and ice.
- Highway 58 (the Barstow-Bakersfield Highway) between Edison and Mojave, including Tehachapi Pass.
Snow closures remained in effect Friday on these mountain roads in Southern California, CalTrans said:
- Highway 33 was closed through Los Padres National Forest, from 6 miles north of Ojai to the Santa Barbara County line, near Ventucopa.
- Highway 2 was closed through the San Gabriel Mountains, from 15 miles east of La Cañada Flintridge to 5 miles west of Big Pines.
Chain controls were imposed on stretches of several highways in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains.
I-15’s Cajon Pass, from the Mojave Desert into the Los Angeles area, had been closed for much of Thursday but reopened in the afternoon. Interstate 8 in eastern San Diego County was also closed for a time on Thursday.
In San Diego County, a passenger died Thursday when a car veered off a snowy road near Warner Springs and crashed into an embankment. The passenger, a 60-year-old woman, wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and the driver was going too fast to control the car, California Highway Patrol Officer Jeff Christy told KSWB-TV.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
