East Westfall Road is an approximately four-mile rural cutoff located in Mariposa County. This corridor was commissioned in 1895 as a direct link between Triangle Road southeast to Chowchilla Mountain Road at the property of Joe Westfall. While seemingly obvious it isn't clear exactly who East Westfall Road is named after. Amusingly Fremont Westfall who namesake of West Westfall Road was known to have resided for a time next to Joe Westfall along what is now modern East Westfall Road. Part 1; the history of East Westfall Road On May 7, 1895, W.B. Duncan would petition the Mariposa County Board of Supervisor to construct what is now East Westfall Road. The corridor was intended to begin at the property of Joe Westfall at the road to Wawona (Chowchilla Mountain Road) and terminate at the road to Darrah and Snow Creek (Triangle Road). Joe Westfall's property was located next to the residence of Fremont Westfall. It is unclear if the two were relate...
The combined ten-mile corridor of Madera County Road 820 and Oak Grove Road is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills north of the community of Raymond. Madera County Road 820 begins northbound at Road 800 and becomes Oak Grove Road at the Mariposa County line. The mostly dirt surfaced Oak Grove Road continues to a terminus at Indian Peak Road. Oak Grove Road was initially developed in the late 1880s. The original alignment began at the ghost town of Ben Hur and terminated at Indian Peak Road via the ranch of J.W. Coleman. Oak Grove Road would be realigned in 1912 to towards Road 800 (then Bailey Flats Road) upon completion of the Striped Rock Creek Bridge. The Striped Rock Creek Bridge is one of the few remaining Thru Truss spans in California which still carries a wooden plank road deck. The corridor of Oak Grove Road is named after the Oak Grove School which was once located near the Coleman ranch property. Part 1; the history of Madera...