Bluff Lake (San Bernardino County, California)

Bluff Lake is a lake in the Big Bear Valley of the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County, California. It is located southwest of Big Bear Lake reservoir and Big Bear City.[1]

Bluff Lake
Bluff Lake
Bluff Lake
LocationSan Bernardino County, California
Coordinates34°13′13″N 116°58′08″W
TypeLake
Surface elevation7,600 feet (2,300 m)

Geography

The lake is at a surface elevation of 7,600 feet (2,300 m).

Bluff Lake Reserve

Bluff Lake Reserve includes a pine forest, a 20 acres (8.1 ha) lake and meadow, and outcrops of quartz monzonite. The reserve includes a mountain marsh and meadow complex that contains the federally threatened Bear Valley bluegrass (Poa atropurpurea), the federally endangered Big Bear checkerbloom (Sidalcea pedata) and California dandelion (Taraxacum californicum). Botanical features in the meadow include 16 species of sedges (Carex), eight species of wire grass (Juncus) and 14 species of native grass. Mature forests of lodgepole pine, Jeffrey pine, and white fir surround the meadow.[2]

History

In 1899 Gus Knight and Hiram Clark (Clark Grade Road) built the Bear Valley and Redlands Toll Road via the Santa Ana Canyon past Bluff Lake. Early buses known as White Stages paused near Bluff Lake on their way to Big Bear Lake in 1915.[3] After acquiring this preserve in 2000, The Wildlands Conservancy drained the lake to kill non-native catfish in order to restore the native aquatic systems that had been decimated by artificially stocked lakes in Southern California.[4]

Camp Gilboa bought the 40-acre camp on Bluff Lake in 2011 from the Wildlands Conservancy, which had purchased and renovated the property five years earlier.[5][6]

The summer camp scenes from the Walt Disney film, The Parent Trap (1961 film) were filmed at the camp, then known as Bluff Lake Camp, owned at that time by the Pasadena YMCA. Dr. Dolittle 2, starring Eddie Murphy, was filmed at Bluff Lake.[7]

References
  1. Big Bear Frontier: "All About Bluff Lake in Big Bear" . accessed 2.2.2019.
  2. "Bluff Lake Reserve". The Wildlands Conservancy. The Wildlands Conservancy. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  3. History of Big Bear Lake
  4. "Bluff Lake Reserve". The Wildlands Conservancy. The Wildlands Conservancy. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  5. Torok, Ryan. "A new home for historic labor zionist youth camp". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  6. Shlapobersky, Dalit (January 30, 2017). "Camp Gilboa Celebrates Successful Purchase of Camp Site". San Diego Jewish Journal. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  7. "Bluff Lake Reserve". The Wildlands Conservancy. The Wildlands Conservancy. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
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