San Dimas Canyon
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:37 pm
So my brother and I just started driving yesterday and ended up in what turned out to be San Dimas Canyon. I know now that it is off limits for hiking, but at the time, it was just another dirt road in the mountains. Anyway, just wanted to share a little of what I saw there.
There's two forks near the locked gated entrance, east and west. Up the east side first, we passed a number of ruined cabins and maybe one or two that seemed to be still inhabited.
Less than I mile in, we came to a bend in the road, and then a locked gate. Notice the security camera. We spotted just the top of a fairly large looking house on top of a hill just to the left of the gate.
So we returned to the fork and went up the west side. Immediately we passed several houses that appeared to be occupied. The windows were all intact, no graffiti, doors shut, ect. Then we passed a house that was obviously in disrepair. It looked like it had been broken into.
After checking it out from a distance, we concluded that it was definitely unihabited and decided to take a peak through the windows. To our surprise the house was filled with stuff! I'd guess that someone has been living there in its current state of disrepair, given the accumulation of all that stuff. But who knows.
We continued up the road passing about six or seven more cabins in a similar state. Most of them looked as if the whole of their contents had been thrown up all over the dirt road. Pretty freaky if you ask me. All the houses had these signs in the window. Does anyone know what they mean?
Also some strange architecture back here too.
So we continued up the road to its "end," where a berm had been built to block the way. Up ahead the forest was completely overgrown, and yet we spotted a few more structures. Plus the map I had showed the road continuing up to Glendora Ridge Road. So we bushwacked our way through it for a while until we again found remnants of the road, now heavily overgrown with vegetation. Does anyone know the story of this road? I think it is called San Dimas Canyon Road West Fork. It both interests me and gives me the chills. I definitely won't go back, but I'm interested nonetheless.
There's two forks near the locked gated entrance, east and west. Up the east side first, we passed a number of ruined cabins and maybe one or two that seemed to be still inhabited.
Less than I mile in, we came to a bend in the road, and then a locked gate. Notice the security camera. We spotted just the top of a fairly large looking house on top of a hill just to the left of the gate.
So we returned to the fork and went up the west side. Immediately we passed several houses that appeared to be occupied. The windows were all intact, no graffiti, doors shut, ect. Then we passed a house that was obviously in disrepair. It looked like it had been broken into.
After checking it out from a distance, we concluded that it was definitely unihabited and decided to take a peak through the windows. To our surprise the house was filled with stuff! I'd guess that someone has been living there in its current state of disrepair, given the accumulation of all that stuff. But who knows.
We continued up the road passing about six or seven more cabins in a similar state. Most of them looked as if the whole of their contents had been thrown up all over the dirt road. Pretty freaky if you ask me. All the houses had these signs in the window. Does anyone know what they mean?
Also some strange architecture back here too.
So we continued up the road to its "end," where a berm had been built to block the way. Up ahead the forest was completely overgrown, and yet we spotted a few more structures. Plus the map I had showed the road continuing up to Glendora Ridge Road. So we bushwacked our way through it for a while until we again found remnants of the road, now heavily overgrown with vegetation. Does anyone know the story of this road? I think it is called San Dimas Canyon Road West Fork. It both interests me and gives me the chills. I definitely won't go back, but I'm interested nonetheless.
