Understanding Old Trails in Stevens Creek Canyon, Part 4

Trying to find an old road or trail that ran up the stream canyon where the old pond dam was built along Stevens Canyon Rd. Not sure what this road was built for, but it was likely associated with the old structures visible on the 1948 historical topo map.

It took 2 trips to locate this road. It's very faint on the hill shade map and even fainter on the ground. I did manage to find a short stretch of the road before it vanished under heavy brush. It appears this side of the canyon gets a lot of sun exposure and all the areas likely cleared back in the mid-1900s are being over grown with brush. From the aerial view, this isn't an area with serpentine soil, thus a different species of brush, likely Coyote Brush (Baccharis pilularis).

If this road was associated with the 1940's era buildings shown on the USGS map, it's likely been unused for perhaps 70 years and has mostly vanished. It doesn't seem to connect to the road under the pond dam and that pond isn't depicted on the 1948 map. But it does show up on the 1961 map. So that pond may have been built after those structures were abandoned, as they don't appear on that 1961 map.

USGS National Map Viewer:
https://apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer/

View/download maps on the TopoView site:
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/

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