Viejo Road is a short two-mile winding mountain corridor located mostly in the Santa Lucia Mountains above the city of Monterey. The corridor Viejo Road begins at Aguajito Road and descends to a terminus at Soledad Drive within Monterey. Most of the roadways just outside of the Monterey city limit in the Santa Lucia Mountains were subdivided from the unused Del Monte Golf Course property during the early 1940s. Much of the lands which comprised the Del Monte Golf Course holdings were once part of Rancho Aguajito. Part 1; the history of Viejo Road Viejo Road mostly now lies on a corridor occupies which once comprised part of Rancho Aguajito south of downtown Monterey. The land was granted to George Tapia during 1835 by then Alta California governor Jose Figueroa. Tapia's land holdings were honored by the Public Land Commission in 1853 following the Mexican-American War and emergence of the state of California. The land was eventually purchased by...
San Miguel Canyon Road is an approximately 8.3-mile-long rural highway located in northern Monterey County. San Miguel Canyon Road begins at San Juan Road (Monterey County Route G11) and heads south towards Prunedale. The corridor of San Miguel Canyon Road picks up the designation of Monterey County Route G12 at Hall Road and carries it south to US Route 101 in Prunedale. San Miguel Canyon Road has served the Prunedale community since the 1890s. As the name suggests much of the roadway corridor passes through San Miguel Canyon. As northern Monterey County grew in the second half the twentieth century San Miguel Canyon Road would become a major local highway. In 1965 the Hall Road-US Route 101 segment of San Miguel Canyon Road was added as component of Monterey County Route G12. Part 1; the history San Miguel Canyon Road San Miguel Canyon Road serves to connect the community of Prunedale northward to San Juan Road (Monterey County Route G11...