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Article: Maverick mountains: the Santa Cruz Mountains have tall redwoods and great wine. What more could you want? (Travel & Recreation).
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- Sunset
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- July 1, 2003
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South of San Francisco, the Santa Cruz Mountains ruck and rimple from Woodside to Mt. Madonna, offering challenges every mile along the way. Here, roads wind perilously through steep canyons; earthquakes shake the hills; fog and heat and rain vie for dominance of the skies.
All this is what makes this place so fascinating--and why the stretch of the Coast Range separating Silicon Valley from the Pacific has so long appealed to the ambitious, the dreamer, the maverick.
State 17 provides the fastest route through the mountains. But to truly know them, you need to hit the back-roads. To slow down (way down--these are seriously curvy byways) and enjoy the ...