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Rollins, John Q.A. NRHP reference No. 80000881, 97001114 [ 8 ] Added to NRHP. Tuesday, September 30, 1980. Rollins Pass, elevation 11,676 ft (3,559 m), is a mountain pass and active archaeological site [ 9 ][ 10 ][ 2 ] in the Southern Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado in the United States. The pass is located on and traverses the ...
Coordinates: 41°03′49″N 111°32′53″W. October 2013. Devil's Slide is a geological formation located near the border of Wyoming in northern Utah 's Weber Canyon, near the community of Croydon in Morgan County, Utah, United States. The Slide consists of two parallel limestone strata that have tilted to lie vertical, protruding 40 feet ...
Thousand Mile Tree. Coordinates: 41.053055°N 111.529238°W. The Thousand Mile Tree Muybridge #821 (c1870) Griggs Engraving (1878) Thousand Mile Tree is a pine tree located in Weber Canyon near the community of Henefer, Utah along the Overland Route of the Union Pacific Railroad. In January 1869, graders of the railroad found a similar tree ...
A new wagon route bypassing the deteriorating Devil's Slide was opened in 1895. Initially called El Camino Nuevo (the New Road), it was later named the Chatsworth Grade Road, which continued in use until the present Santa Susana Pass Road was built in 1917. [2] [6] Map of the Stage Road NRHP property (shaded) within Santa Susana State Historic ...
The Devil's Slide tunnels, as they are usually called, are the second and third longest road tunnels in California at 4,149 ft (1,265 m) northbound, and 4,008 ft (1,222 m) southbound. By comparison the longest road tunnel currently in California, the Wawona Tunnel on Highway 41 in Yosemite National Park, is 4,233 ft (1,290 m).
Devil's Slide (California) Coordinates: 37.574383°N 122.520255°W. The sheer cliffs of the Devil's Slide promontory. A large area of slope failure is evident, marked by unweathered orange rocks and sharp truncations of vegetated areas. Devil's Slide is a coastal promontory in California, United States. It lies on the San Mateo County coast ...
Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [1][8][10][11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed. [6][7 ...
Santa Cruz. Route of the Ocean Shore Railroad as envisioned in 1908. The Ocean Shore Railroad was a railroad built between San Francisco and Tunitas Glen, and Swanton and Santa Cruz that operated along the Pacific coastline from 1905 until 1920. The route was originally conceived to be a continuous line between San Francisco and Santa Cruz, but ...