Edison Campground (Shaver Lake, CA)
Haven't seen this posted yet and thought it may be of interest to some of you. No out of county firewood is allowed into Edison Campground this year. We just made our reservations for this summer an...
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That is a really far out of the way campground!
I can't blame them for not wanting to import any beetles, or other destructive bugs along with the firewood!
Edison International bought all that land back in the early 1900's for use as a water reservoir for the 'big creek' project, that provided Los Angles much of it's electrical power through about 1925. Mr Huntington was a huge investor, and ran the 'red cars' in LA until the 50's. It was a electric railroad that used much of the power produced.
You might want to look up the Big Creek Project, it is very interesting thing that they did, building a railroad all the way to Huntington Lake at 4,500' elevation back in 1913! The railroad was taken out around 1930 - 33.
Mr Redinger wrote a book about the Big Creek project, that he helped survey, and got to name many of those lakes. He was also superintendent for many years (1933 to his retirement in 1947 or 49.)
Have fun camping!
Fred.
I can't blame them for not wanting to import any beetles, or other destructive bugs along with the firewood!
Edison International bought all that land back in the early 1900's for use as a water reservoir for the 'big creek' project, that provided Los Angles much of it's electrical power through about 1925. Mr Huntington was a huge investor, and ran the 'red cars' in LA until the 50's. It was a electric railroad that used much of the power produced.
You might want to look up the Big Creek Project, it is very interesting thing that they did, building a railroad all the way to Huntington Lake at 4,500' elevation back in 1913! The railroad was taken out around 1930 - 33.
Mr Redinger wrote a book about the Big Creek project, that he helped survey, and got to name many of those lakes. He was also superintendent for many years (1933 to his retirement in 1947 or 49.)
Have fun camping!
Fred.
