Coast Road is an approximately 10-mile dirt corridor which loops modern California State Route 1 between the Bixby Creek Bridge to the entrance of Andrew Molera State Park. Coast Road was originally part of a foot trail in the Big Sur region developed during the early 1850s. The Coast Road was declared a public highway in 1855 and was improved during the 1880s to permit wagon travel to Post's Ranch. Coast Road would be annexed as part of the interim routing of Legislative Route Number 56 in 1926. The interim State Highway corridor was necessary due to the then ongoing construction of the Carmel-San Simeon Highway throughout the Big Sur region. Coast Road was relinquished in November 1932 when the Bixby Creek Bridge realigned state highway corridor towards the coastal cliffs. The entirety of Legislative Route Number 56 would be assigned as California State Route 1 during August 1934. The Carmel-San Simeon Highway (now Cabrillo Highway) woul...
Cannon Road is a short two-mile rural connector to US Route 101 in western San Benito County. This seemingly insignificant roadway passes through the thickest part of what was once known as the St. Francis Eucalyptus Grove. Said grove was planted by the Forestry Corporation between 1907-1913 and was actively maintained until at least the 1930s. The St. Francisc Grove in recent decades has largely grown wild and was culled along US Route 101 in 2024 after dying trees began to fall onto the highway. Part 1; the history of the Cannon Road and the St. Francis Eucalyptus Grove Cannon Road is a short two-mile rural roadway which begins at Anzar Road and extended south to US Route 101 (also California State Route 156) near San Juan Bautista. Traditionally Cannon Road has been one of many minor roads between Prunedale and Gilroy which has had at-grade connections to modern US Route 101. Planting of Eucalyptus trees began in the area around Chittenden P...