California purchased the swath of rocky cliffs and windswept shoreline in the 1960s to expand the construction of Highway 1 and create a scenic viewpoint for highway travelers, according to a California Coastal Commission report.
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Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2026
Instead of sheer cliffs and waterfalls, the landscape is open and often windswept.
Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.
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