Sausalito Live Cam

Following North Street to the end of its extension into the far- reaches of the canyon is Cable Roadway at 31 Central Avenue. It ascends/descends up to Prospect Avenue there being a jog, a break, at midpoint as it crosses over (with no real connection) Crescent Avenue and Sausalito Boulevard. At Prospect it veers a little southward. This combination of staircases and paved roadway provides access to many homes. It’ name is presumed to have been derived from its use as a "way by which materials were hauled up the hill". It was surveyed in 1889 as a possible cable tramway. It is 25’ wide and 780’ long.

It is back in this area a little south along Crescent Avenue and Sausalito Boulevard that the springs are located and where manganese was mined. The Sausalito Bay Land Company Property Map No 3d dated June 1889 notes springs between Sausalito Blvd. and Prospect, between Sausalito Blvd and Crescent and above Prospect near the Alta/Marion Avenue area.

The manganese mines which operated in the 1870s and 1880s located at the head of Sausalito Blvd. just below Prospect Avenue were uncovered in October of 1982 while repairing slide damage caused by rains of January, 1982. The tunnel was lined with decaying redwood timbers 100 feet in length. A sample of the ore and timber is with the Sausalito Historical Museum.