Additionally, there is no cell phone service, landline telephone, or internet connectivity on Chews Ridge.

The Forest Service subsequently used the structure to house radio repeater equipment and to mount antennas.

Some portions of the road are only suitable for high-clearance or four-wheel drive vehicles, and depending on current weather conditions, may become impassible.

[9] There is evidence of Esselen occupation, including bedrock mortars found in grasslands near concentrations of Valley Oak.

On September 25, 1906, Eleanor Chew reported in her column that "an automobile party of seven, accompanied by a camp wagon, arrived here last night and will go to Miller Canyon today.

Nellie Chew also became the librarian for the Jamesburg branch of the Monterey County Library established on March 14, 1914, located in the post office.

[16] The Chews sold the ranch in April 1919 to William Gordon and Pauline (Henningsen) Lambert of Jamesburg.

[17] Constantine Chew died on March 29, 1920, at age 85 in National City, California, at the home of his son John.

In 1903, a fire started by an untended campfire near Chews Ridge burned a path 6 miles (9.7 km) wide to the coast over three months.

On July 21 of that year Eleanor "Nellie" Chew reported that "a fire has been raging on the Carmel for some time past and the air is filled with smoke.

The coast fire has also come over the divide and crossed the Carmel river and threatens Andrew Church's place with destruction.

"[25] In 1906, a fire that began in Palo Colorado Canyon from the embers of a campfire burned 150,000 acres (61,000 ha) over 35 days and was finally extinguished by the first rainfall of the season.

[27][28] A developed hardwood forest and mixed community of Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) and Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri) thrives on the slopes of Chews Ridge.

The ridge unusually supports extensive areas of savanna with large valley oaks, with many patches of open grassland than other peaks in the Santa Lucia Range.

The predominant rock types include pre-cretaceous schist, very small ultrabasic outcrops, and Miocene sandstone.

[10] On June 6, 2014, Joseph Nissensohn was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for killing Tanya Jones, 14, and Tammy Jarschke, 13, of Seaside, California on Chews Ridge in 1981.

They eventually began looking for mountain ranges "along the west coast of a continent" where the air was smooth from the ocean, "resulted in small sharp star images".

[34] In 1972, members of the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy applied to the Forest Service for a use permit, and it was granted in 1974.

Over the next couple of years, the Case students moved to Monterey County, and took part-time jobs in the area, to make a down-payment on 80 acres (32 ha) in Cachagua Valley, near the Carmel foothills.