Off in the desert developments of Murrieta, in California’s Riverside County, there is a posh McMansion enclave called Central Park. And at the northernmost reaches of this development, beyond such roads as Turtle Pond Lane and Boat House Drive, and at the very edge of desert canyons, we find a road called McGowans Pass.
This seems to have been built 8 or 10 years ago, possibly by Barratt American, the local offshoot of a British house-building firm that went belly-up a couple of years ago. Regardless of who built the tract, it is marvelous that anyone involved in the enterprise would be so steeped in Central Park lore to name the ultimate road in Central Park (Murietta version) “McGowans Pass.”