Templin Highway

Templin Highway is a two-lane road in Los Angeles County, California, United States that connects Interstate 5 and the old Golden State Highway with the north end of Castaic Lake. Originally named Warm Springs Road, it was renamed in 1967 after county highway commissioner Newton H. Templin, who had promoted the road's construction. [Valley News (Van Nuys), October 20, 1967] 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, [http://cahighways.org/maps/1956-la-mteb2.pdf 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. [Harrison Irving Scott, Ridge Route: The Road That United California, p. 112 (third printing, 2003, ISBN 0-615-12000-8)]

For the filming of "Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic", an episode of the TV series "Monk", the crew turned Templin Highway into a freeway by constructing a median barrier out of cinder blocks. [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.

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