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About 7.1% of families and 10.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.5% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over. Big Pine students are served by Big Pine Unified School District which features an elementary school, middle school, high school and a continuation high school.
The Glacier Lodge is a campsite in Big Pine, California in the Sierra Nevada. It is located in Big Pine Canyon, below Kid Mountain. [1] The area is popular with wilderness enthusiasts and offers fishing, camping, hiking, cycling, and other activities. Big Pine Creek runs alongside the road.
Big Pine, Reyes, and Pinos peaks area, aerial view. Big Pine Mountain is a mountain located in the San Rafael Mountains of the California Transverse Ranges.High enough to receive snowfall during the winter, [4] the summit, at 6,803+ feet (2,074+ m), is the highest point in the San Rafael Mountains, the Dick Smith Wilderness, and Santa Barbara County. [1]
State Route 168 (SR 168) is an east-west state highway in the U.S. state of California that is separated into two distinct segments by the Sierra Nevada.The western segment runs from State Routes 41 and 180 in Fresno east to Huntington Lake along the western slope of the Sierra.
Big Pines began as a year-round recreation area built by Los Angeles County in 1924. [1] It is a popular ski area close to Los Angeles, as it has a history of significant snowfall, even as late as May. [2] [3] The Mountain High Ski Resort and the Table Mountain Observatory are located in Big Pines.
Big Pine Creek is a 12.1-mile-long (19.5 km) [1] stream in Inyo County of eastern California, in the western United States. It flows from the eastern Sierra Nevada down to the Owens Valley , where it is a major tributary of the Owens River near Big Pine .
The maps below show the sizes and statuses of the fires. They will be updated frequently. The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 33 square miles.
Josiah Whitney in his book Geology, Volume 1 writes: "At the head of the north fork, along the main crest of the Sierra, is a range of peaks, from 13,500 to 14,000 feet high, which we called 'the Palisades.' These were unlike the rest of the crest in outline and color, and were doubtless volcanic; they were very grand and fantastic in shape." [4]