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Public Forums => Wrightwood History => Topic started by: GRAHAM_RANCH on Jul 19, 07, 07:36:23 AM
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A friend asked me today which came first highway 2 or Lone Pine Canyon. ???
I would guess Lone Pine Canyon road but, I am not sure.
Any information would be appreciated. :2thumbsup:
Jerry
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I believe Lone Pine Canyon was the original road to WW. Hwy 2 was built in the 30s by the CCC. Anyone from the historical society know this to be fact?
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The first road into Wrightwood was Lone Pine Canyon, it was a fine dirt road that made an arduous climb over the summit next to present day East Canyon. There was a wagon road from the curve of Lone Pine Cyn that emptied into Blue Cut, that allowed a route towards San Bernardino and the Santa Ana River drainage.
Lone Pine Cyn Rd existed way before 1910. It was the main route of travel for Almon Cylde and the present day Clyde's Apple Ranch. I have no idea when it was first paved, but the route was so well used that Wrightwood forefather Sumner Wright and other entrepreneurs were undergoing a "trackless trolley" project that started from the present day junction of 138/fwy 215 from 1921-1914. It was the debunked Lone Pine Utilities Co. who obtained all the rights on a strip of land fifty feet wide, along the north shoulder of Lone Pine Cyn Road for power poles and wiring to provide the power to push the trackless trolley To Wrightwood. The project stopped just east of East Canyon...probably because of plaguing financial problems and the lost of interest.
In regards to Hwy 2- The first segment of freeway was built in the 1950s and ran from just west of the Los Angeles River. By 56 it stretched over the San Gabriels and continued on to tie into Pipeline Road, which, I understand, came up west from Cajon Pass (from route 66, which itself was built around 1926, and was later buried by the 395 and Fwy. 215)
Terry G.