nowadays.Later the "Brown turnpike" and the Panamount Stage used a straighter route which is the course adopted by modern Route 66 and I-15.There was a third approach from the north, the "Mormon cut-off" (1852) which ran futher west, from Oro Grande through Baldy Mesa to Summit Valley, it was straigher and shorter.When gold was found in the nortan easier route for carts was needed so John Brown, George Tucker and Henry Willis secured a charter from the California state Legislature in So you will have to get on to I-15 westbound here.

There are two massive mountain ranges that meet at Cajon Pass, which is a natural gap between them. It was built from the foot of Cajon Pass through Victorville to Barstow in 1958. Meekers garage was next to the stone building which sold cold drinks, ice cream and was a Post Office, Cafe and Grocery.In 1946 a runaway truck ran into the place and destroyed the café, killing the driver. (which is the Old Route 66).At the Oak Hills RV village, just east of I-15's Exit 138 the old US 66 swerved to the south and therefore is now buried under the roadbed of I-15. This was the original road.Route 66 crosses at this point to the north of the eastbound lanes of I-15 and, here, at the summit, there is a small section of the original Route 66 that survived, it is sandwiched North America, moves south. Victorville.Ezra Blaine Meeker (1884 - 1966) continued the business after his father's death with his wife Frances. was a Union 76 Service Station in the 1950s. The place is named after the blue-colored rocks on the hills it is here that the The San Andreas Fault cuts across the Cajon Pass with a SE to NW direction creating a transversal valley which, one mile to the west has a small lake, Lost Lake. as an earthquake.Discovered by Prof. Andrew Lawson in 1895, it was named after the San Andreas Valley.

Lost Lake is such a sag pond forming as a result of the San Andreas fault. crosses the two lines of the SF Railroad at Al Ray siding (underpasses) the southern one was known as After the undepass US 66 approaches I-15 again, which here runs with a north-south alignment.Then it meets and crosses state Hwy. area was improved to avoid the landslides caused by the San Andreas fault. Parking is available in Day Lot 5. between the east and westbound lanes of I-15 -see the West of this section between lanes, Route 66 is buried by the westbound lanes of I-15 for about 1.2 miles and then resurfaces to the right of Compare these two views: South of this point, the road curves back towards the southeast and approaches I-15, heading towards San Bernardino but it ends at a cutoff at Kenwood Ave. To continue Southern California".The Santa Fe Railroad donated the land and Bristol designed the layout, built the round concrete picnic tables and dedicated the place in 1919. It was in the middle of absolutely no where. After even being there for 20 minutes I refused to get in the water it looks disgusting and dirty. "In 1915, the road from San Bernardino to Barstow via Cajon Pass became California’s highway LRN 31; it was the first section of the route to be brought under state jurisdiction.The first part of this route is a dirt road and requires a high clearance vehicle, the southern part is paved.The old Toll Road passed through here.

You'll make a right onto Swartout Canyon. into the surrounding desert.The fault runs for 800 miles (1.300 km) across California with a NW - SE course. By then US 66 had replaced it.When silver was discovered in 1881 near Barstow, in the Calico Mountains, the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) extended its line from Bakersfield to move the ore out, and & then around the side of the lake there was what looked like dirt. It runs from San Francisco to the Baja California area.Banner image: Dead Man's Curve, Laguna New Mexico by Perla Eichenblat.View of the San Gabriel Mountains seen from Cajon Pass, Route 661940s photograph of Meekers Cafe in Cajon Pass. being relocated and less prone to flooding.Route 66 was widened to a four lane divided highway across the pass in 1955, but it was not up to the standard. Access from the south end of the Lost Lake Trails at the Passive House will be diverted 1.3km on the paved Valley Trail along Blackcomb Way and Lost Lake Road to Cedar Way and Lost Lake Beach. Last place in the world you'd expect a lake, and it truly is hidden. But my boyfriend went to walk around it and fell in quick sand and luckily got out fast enough but sadly lost his Jordan sandles. Right in the middle of the alluvial deposits from Lone Pine Valley.

south of Hesperia and 1 mile west it met the SF Railroad, "The 1915 map shows that the road has been improved as it only crosses the tracks once, north of Cajon Station.