This Cut In The Rock Was NOT Made By the California Highway Department. The Russian River Got Here First!

…This River Over Past Eons, Managed to Cut This Wonderful Valley Down From the Surrounding Hills.

…The Highway Followed the River Through This Gap.

…[ “ … and Hopland, and Cloverdale, ” ] “down into the wine country. The freeway miles seem so easy now. The engine which has carried us halfway across a continent drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through … ” (Cont Next)

About seven miles SouthSouthEast of Hopland, CA. This Valley and the Russian River started in the mountains well North of Ukiah, flows through Mendocino Lake, and continues South, half way to San Francisco Bay, and then turns West through a mountain range to the Pacific Ocean.
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(Photo = 117-1770 ..... ZMM Page = 372 ..... WayPt = 480i 0471ft. Photo at ~7 mi SouthSouthEast of Hopland and 2 mi South of WayPt = 479 0470ft)