Cuddy Valley Road is an approximately 5.1-mile-long rural highway located in the Transverse Ranges of Kern County. This corridor begins at the junction of Frazier Mountain Park Road and Lockwood Valley Road in the small community of Lake of the Woods. Cuddy Valley Road passes through the namesake Cuddy Valley where it has a western terminus at the junction of Mount Pinos Highway and Mil Potrero Highway. Cuddy Valley Road is presently maintained as Kern County Mountain Road 364. Cuddy Valley 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 emptie...
Hites Cove Road is an approximately seven-mile rural highway corridor located in the Sierra Nevada range of Mariposa County. As presently configured Hites Cove Road begins as a paved roadway at Double Eagle Road in the neighborhood of Mariposa Pines. Hites Cove Road north of Mariposa Pines becomes Sierra National Forest Road 03S002 for approximately two miles and Off Highway Vehicle trail 19E200 for another four miles to the town site of Hites Cove. Hites Cove Road is named after the ghost town of Hites Cove. This former community was the site of a mining strike by John Hite at the South Fork Merced River in 1861. Hites Cove was a prominent Gold Rush era community in Mariposa County which eventually grew important enough to warrant a twenty-stamp mill. John Hite petitioned the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors for the construction of Hites Cove Road in 1864. Functionally the road to Hites Cove would be complete in 1866 when a footbridge was constru...