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I’ve never been able to get a clear picture of the L.A. basin, it’s much more impressive in person.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Farther down the road, you get a good view of the Antelope Valley. Edwards AFB in the distance.<\/p><\/div>\n
Newcomb’s Ranch is a roadhouse at 5,340 feet and the only private property along the Angeles Crest Hwy.\u00a0 The Newcomb family, who also created the Mount Waterman ski area, built the roadhouse in 1939. The roadhouse has served as a restaurant, hotel, general store, gas station, and as a brothel and is a good spot to stretch your legs and get a beverage.\u00a0 Most people turn around here, but we are pressing on to Wrightwood.<\/p>\n
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They have a fairly large parking lot here and on the weekends it is PACKED!!<\/p><\/div>\n
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Guess this guy never rides at night….<\/p><\/div>\n
We talked to the rider of that bike and he said it was an encounter with a deer that broke the headlight.\u00a0 I was skeptical, but there are signs that warn you about desert bighorn sheep being in the area.\u00a0 I couldn’t believe it when we actually saw one and got a picture before it bounded off.\u00a0 THAT doesn’t happen every day. $\"Wrightwood$ <\/a><\/p>\n
Greeting travelers to Wrightwood is this monument.\u00a0 It was built by entrepreneur William M. Bristol<\/a> back when this road was part of Route 66.\u00a0 Mr. Bristol’s love of the mountains is reflected in this poem he wrote that is attached to the “castle tower”. $\"Wrightwood$ <\/a> $\"Wrightwood$ <\/a><\/p>\n
I’ve actually forgotten over the years how nice it is up here in the Angeles National Forest.\u00a0 We vowed to come back up with a picnic basket in the very near future.\u00a0 That chicken salad sandwich always tastes so much better up in the fresh mountain air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Angeles Crest Hwy from La Ca\u00f1ada to Wrightwood has always been one of my favorite rides.\u00a0 On the weekends it can get pretty busy but during the week you’ve got the road mostly to yourself.\u00a0 After several miles with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/recent\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}