On July 28, 1938, the Newhall Auto Tunnel was blasted away and replaced by Sierra Highway, a new roadway connecting the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys. Before the age of the automobile and the tunnel, travel between the two valleys relied on passage through Beale’s Cut, a historic passageway carved through the San Fernando Pass in 1863. Commissioned by ...

On December 21, 1910, The Newhall Auto Tunnel was opened connecting a path for automobiles to travel from the San Fernando Valley to the Santa Clarita Valley. Before the Newhall Tunnel was created, the only connector between the two valleys was known as Beale’s Cut made in 1863.  This 90-foot-deep cut was commissioned by Edward Fitzgerald Beale to ease the ...