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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.

This is HistoryCake, the Altadena Golf Course tour.

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

Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour
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.

Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour
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.

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake
Local geology and history and community in the 1920's

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake
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.

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake
Old bridge at Montalvo - bus, farming community