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Beale's CutBeale's Cut, also known as "Newhall Pass," "San Fernando Pass" (despite its distance from San Fernando, especially before the completion of the current Interstate 5) and, rarely, "Old Newhall Pass," is a narrow thirty-foot deep cut in a ridge about 1/4 miles to the northeast of the current intersection of the Interstate 5 and California State Route 14 freeways in the city of Santa Clarita, California. It played an early and important role in aiding travel between the northern and southern parts of the state of California. Before the current Interstate 5 freeway was completed, a road known as the Ridge Route was the only direct connection between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Joaquin Valley. What later became known as Beale's cut was a gap in the ridge approximately thirty feet deep, and, depending on source cited, a natural formation. It was deepened to about ninety feet in 1910 to make it easier for horse-drawn carriages to use. Sometime in the late 20th century it suffered a partial collapse, and now is about thirty feet deep. It is visible from the Sierra Highway about one mile north from the intersection of The Old Road and Sierra Highway, just after the first bridge under the California State Highway 14. It lies between Sierra Highway and the new Freeway, about 1/4 mile to the northeast of a stone marker.
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