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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.

Highway 395 runs north–south up the eastern side of California, above the Cajon Pass; Highway 14 climbs from the San Fernando Pass through Mojave to meet it near Inyokern, just west of Ridgecrest. Today we journey through the past of the land around you — and the hooves and footprints of those who came before. Welcome to HistoryCake!

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake
There were several amazing and brave acts of heroism and people pulling together to help one another as more are forewarned than the unfortunate folks further up the valley

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake
58 minutes after the dam's collapse, a 40 foot brown wall, relentlessly moving at 12 miles per hour and composed of mud, barbed wire and the debris of ranches and farms far upstream, demolished the steel truss bridge at Castaic Junction.

Saint Francis Dam Driving Tour by History Cake
What began as a 150 foot wall of water had subsided to 55 feet of mud, boulders and debris when the flood roared out of San Francisquito canyon toward a sleepy Saugus, then a small town of perhaps a couple hundred souls.

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.

Sphinx Ranch
These were planted by Benjamin Eaton when he built the original structure on the dry land at the top of the San Pascual rancho.