History
The park includes a 174-acre (0.70 km2) National Register of Historic Places property consisting of historic features and sites. This includes the Tongva, Chumash, and Tataviam Native American people's trading routes and village sites remains.
It also includes portions of the Old Santa Susana Stage Road. The Santa Susana stagecoach road was the main route for mail and travelers between Los Angeles and the rest of Southern California northwest to Simi Valley, Santa Barbara, and the San Francisco Bay Area from 1861 until 1876, when the rail connections began between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area through the Newhall Pass opened. The stage road was declared City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #92 (designated 01/05/1972) and Ventura County Historical Landmark #104 (designated 10/21/1986).
The park also includes land that was previously part of the Spahn Ranch, infamous for its connections to Charles Manson, and many decades as a movie ranch.
Read more about this topic: Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park
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