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Highway 17 Summit Elevation
The summit of the stretch of Highway 17 that passes through the Santa Cruz Mountains is called Patchen Pass. The elevation of Patchen Pass is 1,808 feet.
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- Santa Cruz County Place Names: a Geographical Dictionary
by Donald Thomas Clark. Santa Cruz Historical Society, 1986. pgs. 246-252
Last updated by birnbacha on March 18, 2008
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