Highway 4 at Cameron Lake Bluffs is expected to reopen to single-lane-alternating traffic later this morning, Wednesday, July 26, 2023.

Rock scaling planned to start today for Highway 4 at Cameron Lake Bluff will now begin Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at 9 a.m., as weather conditions were not conducive for the scaling work to take place.

Piloted convoys will cease on the Highway 4 detour route effective Friday, July 7, 2023, as travel continues to Vancouver Island’s western communities.

Highway 4 remains closed at Cameron Lake Bluffs with a detour in place for commercial vehicles and people who must travel.

The Highway 4 detour reopened as planned the evening of Friday, June 9, 2023, following the successful extraction of a vehicle from Francis Lake.

The Highway 4 detour will be closed for part of the day on Friday, June 9, 2023, as crews and environmental specialists work to extract a vehicle that rolled into Francis Lake along the detour.

Drivers are advised Highway 4 is closed at Cameron Lake Bluff, near Koen Road, because of wildfire in the area. Travellers are asked to avoid travel in this area.

The Ministry of Forests will conduct aerial-spray treatments in the Port Alberni area in spring 2023 to eradicate spongy moths and minimize the risk they pose to forests, farms, orchards and trees.