Potrero Road
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Character of Potrero road has been altered, by progress, more than any other canyon road in the Santa Monica Transverse Ranges. So much so, it really isn't a canyon road anymore. What use to be a terrific, smooth as glass meander, shoreline to Lake Sherwood, is no more. It's been bypassed. Going immediately west from State Hwy 23, it's a boulevard... used to be such a beautiful drive.
Nonetheless, from an efficiency standpoint, Potrero road is no less significant than Mulholland, in that it enables motorists an inland, east-west alternative that slices between US Hwy 101 and Pacific Coast Hwy. As of this writing, Potrero Road enables motorists to meander the Santa Monica Ranges, end to end, from Lewis Rd or Hueneme Rd in Camarillo, all the way to Hwy 405 (using the unpaved dirt segment of Mulholland), without having to use freeways, without ever having intersecting PCH or US Hwy 101, and without ever having traversed through a busy metropolis. Without Potrero and Mulholland, doing so is not possible in a sports car.
We've been waiting for Carlisle Rd to indirectly intersect Potrero for 25 years, now... wouldn't that be terrific?
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