# Corner Crossing - Large portions of US public land inaccessible to public

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 28, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corner-crossing-large-portions-of-us-public-land-inaccessible-to-public/975691 "2022-11-28T16:34:55Z")
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### Author: ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corner-crossing-large-portions-of-us-public-land-inaccessible-to-public/975691/2 "2022-11-28T16:41:00Z")

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Didn’t we have some huge thread about this a while (like 10 years) back? I remember something about a big controversy because the public needed to cross over some private property to get to a beach.

ETA, I believe this is what I was thinking of.

> [@Lawyers? Man buys land that includes public road, bars access to the public.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-man-buys-land-that-includes-public-road-bars-access-to-the-public/672572):
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> [Vinod Khosla, California, Half Moon Bay, 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo](http://valleywag.gawker.com/venture-capitalist-wins-fight-to-exempt-his-land-from-c-1454066602/@maxread) Is that how this is supposed to work? The treaty gives land parcels granted by the Mexican government immunity to the law so this guy can take a California State road and claim it as his own? I hope I’m explaining this wrong, so what’s the deal here?

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