Devil's Slide (California)

Devil's Slide is a name given to a steep, rocky coastal promontory located about midway between Montara and the Linda Mar District of Pacifica.

Devil's Slide was originally part of Ocean Shore Railroad that was proposed between San Francisco to Santa Cruz.

On March 25, 2013, Caltrans shut down the landslide-prone coastal road, replacing it with the Tom Lantos Tunnels, which take the highway through the promontory behind the precarious cliffs.

[2] On March 27, 2014 (2014-03-27), the 1.3-mile (2.1 km)-long Devil's Slide Trail was opened to pedestrians and bicyclists,[3] taking over the section of roadway formerly used by State Route 1 and now bypassed by the new tunnels.

Turner and Quinn portrayed doomed lovers who deliberately pushed a car, containing the body of a murdered man, over the edge of the cliff.

Prior to the advent of radar, military personnel used binoculars and compasses to search for ships at sea and relay their coordinates to a central post.

The sheer cliffs of the Devil's Slide promontory. A large area of slope failure is evident, marked by unweathered orange rocks and sharp truncations of vegetated areas.
Devil's Slide (far left) with the southern portal of the Tom Lantos Tunnels (far right) under construction in late 2010. Note the steeply eroded cliffs immediately above and below Highway 1 .
An exposed base end station at Devil's Slide