I found a secret pathway.

First thing you notice up there is someone’s got a really rad fire pit. Also note the light down at the bottom left corner; that’s a clue to the secret path.

View from the secret path.
Note to self, getting a stroller up here will be a chore.

Hihn Park. Hihn built the wharf, had the JV with Spreckels to build the railroad, and donated the land for Spreckels big sugar beet factory.

Hihn also subdivided #Capitola. John T. Porter was the grower who employed Chinese laborers to grow for Spreckels Soquel sugar beet factory, a factory that Porter partly owned.

Porter got into agriculture after losing all of his cattle on Soquel Creek in a drought in 1865. https://twitter.com/dustinmulvaney/status/1332038223950876673

Porter’s son Warren Porter cofounded Granite Rock Company in 1900.. a major supplier of gravel to California and beyond today. Also was a Lieutenant Governor of California. (GREAT LIGHTS!)

The secret path is along this wall which leads to a spot where the old train depot was. Given the labor that built the railroad at the time for Spreckels and Hihn, and grew sugar beets for Porter, processed them for Spreckels; this wall had to be made with Chinese labor.

Ned Porter developed the wharf road.. which ended at his general store in the 1850s; so lots of Porters. Apparently this secret path is called Porter Path.

To find the secret Porter path, just look for the turkey.