Guide
Road closures on this coast
Checked September 30, 2026 against MDOT’s traffic map, MDOTtraffic.com.
The Highways tile repeats what the Mississippi Department of Transportation publishes on its own traffic map about the state highways these towns depend on: US 90 along the beach, I-10 behind it, and the short roads that tie each town to both.
The roads the board watches
MDOT lists every alert in the state on one map. The board keeps only the ones on these roads, each cut to a box on the map so I-10 means the coast counties and not Jackson.
| Route | Runs |
|---|---|
| US 90 | the beach road from the Pearl River through Bay St. Louis, Gulfport and Biloxi to Pascagoula and Moss Point |
| I-10 across Hancock | Harrison and Jackson counties |
| I-110 | Biloxi to I-10 at D’Iberville |
| US 49 | Gulfport north to I-10 and Saucier |
| MS 603 | Waveland and Bay St. Louis up to I-10 and Kiln |
| MS 609 | Ocean Springs north to I-10 |
| MS 57 | Gautier north to I-10 and Vancleave |
| MS 613 | Pascagoula up through Moss Point |
Each town’s page shows its own roads first. MDOT’s map carries state highways, US highways and interstates; a closure on a county road or a city street is not on this tile however close it is to town.
What the tile reads from each alert
Every alert on MDOT’s map has a page of its own. The tile reads MDOT’s words from it: the county, Lanes Affected (“Road closed, westbound”, “Right lane closed”, “Expect delays”), Traffic Impact, the begin and end times, the reason MDOT gives and its own note.
What shuts the road, and what does not
The tile calls a road Closed only when MDOT does: Traffic Impact Closed, with Road closed in Lanes Affected. A road shut one way is shut, and the row says which way. MDOT’s other impact words are shown as delays: High as a major delay, Moderate as a delay, Minimal as a minimal delay.
A closure MDOT has filed for a later day is shown with its date, “Closes Oct 4”, from two weeks out, and becomes Closed when it starts. Cruisin’ the Coast in early October is the usual example: MDOT files the street closures for it ahead of time.
Some closures are long. On September 30, 2026 the US 90 drawbridge over the Pearl River had been closed westbound since May 2022, with MDOT’s end date in December 2028. A closure that old is marked as standing so it does not read as news.
If one of MDOT’s alert pages cannot be read, its row keeps MDOT’s one-line summary from the map, and a road MDOT drew as closed on the map is counted as closed.
The highway cameras
The Highway cameras tile shows up to three of MDOT’s cameras on your town’s own highways, nearest first, within 25 miles, with the rest behind a tap. Each row names the road, how far from town the camera is and which way. MDOT’s camera sites often carry several views, one along each road at the junction; each view is its own row, filed under the road it looks along.
The picture is live, and the time under it is when it loaded. MDOT prints no time on its pictures. Each one is a frame cut from the camera’s live video when your browser asks for it, loaded straight from MDOT, so the tile prints the minute it loaded. A camera whose video is down sends no frame, and the tile says MDOT is not serving that camera’s picture.
No camera. Where MDOT has no camera on your highway within 25 miles, the tile says so and names the nearest one on that road.
The list of cameras was read from MDOT’s traffic map, site by site, on September 30, 2026.
What it cannot tell you
A crash reaches MDOT’s map only when somebody at MDOT has entered it, so the first minutes of a wreck on the beach road are likely to reach you by radio or by brake lights first. For a hurricane evacuation, MDOT and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency publish the routes and contraflow plans; this tile is not where to find them.
Sources
- Mississippi Department of Transportation, MDOTtraffic — the map and the alert pages the tile reads