Frazier Mountain Park Road is an approximately 7.1-mile-long rural highway located Cuddy Canyon of Kern County. This corridor begins at Interstate 5 Exit 205 and extends through the community of Frazier Park to the junction of Lockwood Valley Road and Cuddy Valley Road. Frazier Mountain Park Road is presently maintained as Kern County Mountain Road 368. Frazier Mountain Park Road essentially is a modernization of El Camino Viejo which had been in common use as early as 1780. El Camino Viejo was the first European route from Los Angeles to San Joaquin Valley. From Los Angeles the highway continued northward into San Fernando Valley and to Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana. From San Fernando Valley the highway ascended into the Sierra Pelona Mountains. El Camino Viejo entered San Francisquito Canyon to San Francisquito Pass where it emptied into Antelope Valley in the western flank of the Mojave Desert near Elizabeth Lake. Upon entering Antelope Valley, the route of ...
Jesus Maria Road is a mostly single lane rural highway corridor located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Calaveras County. As presently configured Jesus Maria Road begins at Railroad Flat Road and extends approximately 13 miles west to California State Route 26 near Mokelumne Hill. Jesus Maria Road is named after the former Gold Rush era townsite of Jesus Maria. The town and road were both named after a Mexican farmer who resided in the area during the mining heyday of Calaveras County. The town of Jesus Maria would largely be defunct by the 1890s and there are no longer any vintage structures remaining. Much of Jesus Maria Road east of the namesake town originally followed Whiskey Slide but was realigned onto the modern alignment in the 1940s. Calaveras County designates Jesus Maria Road as County Road 27 and has recently surfaced most of the corridor. Part 1; the history of Jesus Maria Road Jesus Maria Road is named after the former mining co...