Templin Highway is the completed part of a two-lane road project in

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. The road connects

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and the old Golden State Highway with the north end of

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. The name is commonly misapplied to the old Golden State Highway, which runs north into Piru Gorge.

Proposal

Originally named Warm Springs Road, it was renamed in 1967 after county highway commissioner Newton H. Templin, who had promoted the road's construction. Until plans were canceled in 1980, the road was to continue east; a 1958 plan shows it extending to San Francisquito Canyon Road as an expressway, Metropolitan Transportation Engineering Board
Master Plan of Freeways and Expressways
adopted February 28, 1958 and by 1975 it was to connect with Spunky Canyon Road near the Bouquet Reservoir.

Use in media

For the filming of " Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic", an episode of the

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'', the crew turned Templin Highway into a

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by constructing a

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out of

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s.Terry J. Erdmann, Paula M. Block, Monk: The Official Episode Guide, 2006, p. 142 The highway also appears in the movie '' Serenity'' (2005) as the setting for the skiff chase scene. The highway also appears in ''

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'' (2015) as the setting for the final scene.

References

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