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Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...
Pages in category "Campgrounds in California" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. ... Cuyamaca Rancho State Park; D. Del Norte Coast ...
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park: State park San Diego: 24,693 9,993 1933 Preserves an expansive tract of forests and meadows above 5,000 feet (1,500 m) in the Laguna Mountains, on the former Rancho Cuyamaca. [63] D. L. Bliss State Park: State park El Dorado: 2,149 870 1929 Features a balancing rock and the Rubicon Point Light on the shore of Lake ...
As the route approaches its north end at State Route 79, Lake Cuyamaca is visible. The north terminus is located just north of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park where it meets SR 79. History CR S1 Near Al Bahr Shrine Camp. The route was established by the county in the year 1959, where the entire route was designated as it is now.
California State Route 79 wraps around three shores, and provides access to/from Julian to the north and I−8 to the south. [4] Lake Cuyamaca is 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the Paso Picacho Campground and its trailheads in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. [4]
The California Chamber of Commerce made the suggestion in 1962 to convert SR 79 from Descanso to Julian to be an expressway. [27] However, in 1968 those plans were called into question when the county planning commission recommended that the freeway be realigned away from Cuyamaca State Park, or not be built at all. [28]
It is in California's 50th congressional district. Descanso is located east of Alpine and west of Pine Valley. At a 3,450 feet (1,050 m) elevation, it is located at the south entrance to Cuyamaca Rancho State Park and also borders Cleveland National Forest to the west and east. The area was heavily threatened by the 2003 Cedar Fire.
Cuyamaca (Kumeyaay: ‘Ekwiiyemak) [1] is a region of eastern San Diego County, California. It lies east of the Capitan Grande Reservation in the western Laguna Mountains, north of Descanso and south of Julian. Named for the 1845 Rancho Cuyamaca Mexican land grant, the region is now dominated by the 26,000-acre (110 km 2) Cuyamaca Rancho State ...