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Mount Zion Demonstration State Forest is located in the town of Pine Grove, Amador County, California, United States. [1] It features a ranger lookout station and microwave tower atop Mount Zion, which is accessed via Mount Zion Road from California State Route 88.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Shasta County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
Sunset Trail - Sunset Trail is a 4.6 mile loop trail accessible from Meadows Trailhead off Sunrise Highway, mile marker 19.1. [12] The trail, which offers several connection options, winds through pine forest leading one to open meadows, ponds and small lakes, and a popular lookout to the Pacific Ocean.
The camp site is the eastern trail head of the Pine Ridge Trail. [2] [21] [22] There is a modern pit toilet. No water is available. There are 10 campsites that can be reserved in advance. As of Summer 2018 campsites 1–5 are open year-round; campsites 6–10 are only open in the summer season. Fees are $20 per night and allow one vehicle per site.
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 ...
Reaching the summit involves 6.5 miles of trail hiking with 1,600 feet of elevation gain. [7] The mountain was named by the US Forest Service for the dense stand of Jeffrey Pine and white fir covering the slopes. [8] This landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and first appeared in 1901. [5]
Vetter Mountain is the site of historic Vetter Mountain fire lookout tower, a ground mounted BC-3 type cab. The lookout tower was built in 1937 and remained in service until 1981. Ramona Merwin, a USFS fire lookout staffed the tower from 1953 until its closing. The tower was slated to be moved to the Chilao Visitors Center, but a group of ...
Shuteye Lookout was established by the U.S. Forest Service in 1907. The lookout was the first of its kind in the Sierra. Daily hikes to the summit were required before a permanent structure was built in 1909. [7] The availability of a permanent fire lookout station replaced the earlier practice of constant fire patrol by forest rangers. [8]