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Stories of the past that play themselves as you drive, walk, or ride.

Beneath the path or roadway are layered the stories of our past, both recent and some not so recent at all…

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The History Cake app showing a list of available tours, each with a historic photo, stop count and running timeA tour's detail screen in the app, showing its map, stop count and a Start Tour buttonA story playing in the app: an archival photograph of Mirror Lake with the narration player beneath it

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Stories start on their own

Each story begins the moment you arrive, so your phone stays right where it belongs, in your pocket

Written by historians

Researched and narrated by real historians and locals who know the place.

Works fully offline

Download before you leave. Canyons and dead zones don't interrupt the story.

Buy once, keep it

A tour is a one-time purchase, yours to replay on every trip. There are Free tours included.

How it works

Pick a tour. Start moving. Listen.

1

Pick a tour

Browse drives and walks by region. Download the one you want before you leave.

2

Drive or walk the route

Follow the route at your own pace. There's nothing to tap once you're moving.

3

Listen as you arrive

Each story begins the moment you arrive, whether you're standing at a scenic overlook or a corner most people never notice.

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The layers of the cake are baked and ready for you to enjoy.

No matter your mode of journey, be it on foot, rolling rubber or from miles in the sky above, we have the stories of yesteryear on an audio dish.

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From real tours

The places you'll hear about.

Real stops from published tours. Every web page is a preview — the full narration plays on location in the app.

Plan your first trip

Pick your first tour.

Browse the catalog here, then open it in the free app — every story is ready to play on the road.

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Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour
Walking tour$4.99

Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour

A 2.3-mile, ~50-minute walk around Lake Gregory in Crestline — the "Switzerland of Southern California." Across 21 stops, trace the Serrano people, the logging boom and Arthur Gregory's dam, the 1938 flood that filled the lake in three days, the Hollywood-era San Moritz Lodge, the "swingingest town in America," wintering bald eagles, and a mountain community that keeps rebuilding through fire and Snowmageddon.

20 storiesstories
2.3 mi
1h 44m
Hear the stories
Altadena Golf Course - Welcome!
Walking tourFree

Altadena Golf Course - Welcome!

This is HistoryCake, the Altadena Golf Course tour.

12 storiesstories
2.4 mi
1h 21m
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Sphinx Ranch
Walking tourFree

Sphinx Ranch

Hello and welcome to HistoryCake, The Sphinx Ranch walking tour. 

17 storiesstories
5.3 mi
2h 32m
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Weather, the Old Fire & Recreation

Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour

Weather, the Old Fire & Recreation

A look at Crestline's four-season mountain weather, the arson-caused 2003 Old Fire that the Santa Ana winds drove across more than 91,000 acres, and the many ways to play on Lake Gregory today.

The Meadow & Sunset Movie Nights

Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour

The Meadow & Sunset Movie Nights

A wide lakeside lawn that becomes a free, open-air cinema on summer Wednesday evenings, with movies projected against the pines as the sun sinks behind the peaks. The same grass hosts the town's annual June kite festival.

Between Santa Paula and Saticoy

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake

Between Santa Paula and Saticoy

Local geology and history and community in the 1920's

Oxnard Harbor - Santa Clara River mouth: 5:30 AM; 4 ft.; 55 miles downstream

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake

Oxnard Harbor - Santa Clara River mouth: 5:30 AM; 4 ft.; 55 miles downstream

The ocean is turned a murky brown for miles up and down the coast as the floodwaters leave the riverbed and enter the Pacific. Bodies are washed out to sea and found days later, some as far away as San Diego. Many lives were lost and many others were saved and like all crises, there is a uniting and setting aside of past differences.

Montalvo - last town impacted - 50 miles, 4:40 AM

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake

Montalvo - last town impacted - 50 miles, 4:40 AM

Old bridge at Montalvo - bus, farming community