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Three for the Fourth
Calendar Highlight
| Chula Vista
| Coronado
| Julian
Published June 28, 2007
The Fourth of July holiday offers a variety of activities and events. If you're of a pioneering spirit and not attached to the idea of oohing and aahing over a light show in the sky, Julian's ...
Big skies and springtime zephyrs await you at the new Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve near Julian.
Julian
| Roam-O-Rama
Published May 17, 2007
As San Diego County's newest (2006) open-space park, the Santa Ysabel Open Space Preserve is already establishing a reputation as one of the county's finest parcels of unburned montane landscape. Actually, the Cedar Fire in 2003 ...
Classic San Diego
Baja
| Coronado
| Cover Story
| El Cajon
| Fallbrook
| Gaslamp
| Hillcrest
| Inland Border Towns
| Julian
| La Jolla
| Lakeside
| Pala
| Potrero
| SDSU
| Vista
Published April 12, 2007
Most-Filmed Wild West Main Street Don't look yet. Turn off Woodside onto Maine and behold a li'l old Wild West street that'll knock your spurs off. It huddles beneath a perfect movie-set backdrop of towering granite ...
Get an eagle-eye view of the Julian-Ramona area from atop Eagle Peak's summit.
Jamul
| Julian
| Ramona
| Roam-O-Rama
Published March 8, 2007
Standing tall amid lesser bumps on the west slope of the Cuyamaca Mountains, Eagle Peak has a view of the island-dimpled ocean, scattered parts of urban and suburban San Diego, and the higher mountains -- dominated ...
Waterfalls grace the upper reaches of the San Diego River, where only the most competent hikers tread.
Julian
| Roam-O-Rama
Published Nov. 30, 2006
A trip down the San Diego River canyon during the rainy season is a true adventure. (Mind you, we are not referring to the river at its lower Mission Valley segment, or even at Mission Gorge; ...
Red Riding Hood Lied
Calendar Highlight
| Julian
Published Oct. 19, 2006
'The Alaskan gray wolves here eat beef, chicken, goat, horses [when donated], deer, and some fish, on occasion, that is donated by the Navy," says Melinda Booth, development manager of the California Wolf Center. "Deer would ...
Destination: Blues
Calendar Highlight
| Julian
Published July 13, 2006
'The whole thing about blues is the formula of the music," says Robb Bower, founder of the Blues Bash festival. "Most blues songs are built around three chords -- the one, the four, and the five ...
Back When
Back When
| Julian
Published May 25, 2006
Thirty Years Ago "I don't believe in the cult of personality, having my portrait hung all over the place like Ronald Reagan or Mao Tse Tung" is a quote from the little red book of Governor ...
Check out the leafy new Five Oaks Trail on Volcan Mountain near Julian.
Julian
| Roam-O-Rama
Published April 20, 2006
Boldly rising above the apple orchards of Julian, Volcan Mountain's oak- and pine-dotted slopes are swept by some of the freshest breezes found anywhere in San Diego County. Soughing through the trees like waves spending themselves ...
Julian Flap Over Wind-Test Structures
City Lights
| Julian
Published Dec. 15, 2005
Strong winds of public disapproval toppled electricity-producing windmills in the Julian area before they were even built. At an August 11 meeting at Julian Town Hall, 100 area residents whipped up a hurricane of opposition to ...
The waters of Cedar Creek, southwest of Julian, pack the punch of a double-normal rainfall season as they leap over a 90-foot ledge.
Julian
| Roam-O-Rama
Published March 3, 2005
In the aftermath of this season's repeated downpours, San Diego County's "big falls" have been showing their stuff. Big, in this neck of the woods, means a hundred feet or so. Of four such falls in ...
At Home in San Diego
Carlsbad
| Carmel Valley
| City Heights
| Cover Story
| Del Mar
| Escondido
| Hillcrest
| Julian
| Kensington-Talmadge
| Lemon Grove
| Linda Vista
| Mission Beach
| North Park
| Ramona
| San Ysidro
| Scripps Ranch
| Serra Mesa
| South Park
| University City
| University Heights
| Valley Center
Published Dec. 30, 2004
LA COSTA When I think of La Costa, I remember the wildlife -- the skunk that lived under our house, for instance, a beautiful creature whose size would double when it puffed up its fur after ...
Poke around the ruins of old mines along Old Banner Grade east of Julian.
Julian
| Roam-O-Rama
Published Oct. 7, 2004
Honeycombed hillsides and bits and pieces of rusted equipment -- that is the legacy left behind by Julian's gold-mining heyday over a century ago. Although a few mines continue to be worked sporadically even today, most ...
Catch the best autumn scenery on the one-way Kelly Ditch Trail across the Cuyamaca Mountains.
Julian
| Roam-O-Rama
Published Oct. 9, 2003
The 5.5-mile Kelly Ditch Trail, completed in 1985, is perhaps the most beautiful pathway yet built in the Cuyamaca-Julian area. This hiking/horse trail is routed partly along a century-old diversion ditch. You'll also tread over dim ...
Cruise the back roads of Julian by bicycle.
Julian
| Roam-O-Rama
Published July 17, 2003
Summer is settling in at last upon the hills and dales of Julian, bringing with it the toasty smell of sun-dried grass and the cool, vanilla-like fragrance of Jeffrey pines. Bicycling is a good way to ...