A haunted road to Hecker Pass in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California

Hecker Pass is a mountain pass at an elevation of 408m (1,338ft) above the sea level, on the boundary of Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties, in the US state of California. The road through the pass is said to be haunted.

Hecker Pass

Can you drive through Hecker Pass in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California?

Tucked away in the Santa Cruz Mountains of central California, the road to the summit is totally paved. It’s called Hecker Pass Road, the western part of California State Route 152. Local legends, which date all the way back to the mid-1800s, state that there is a woman in a “white frilly dress” who haunts the area, and who sometimes attacks those who pass by in the middle of the night.

How long is Hecker Pass in California?

The pass is 28.48km (17.7 miles) long running west-east from Watsonville (in Santa Cruz County) to Gilroy (in Northern California's Santa Clara County). The first road through the pass was built in 1928.

 

 

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