Big Bear Blogs

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(Big Bear Lake, CA – February 11, 2010) – Bear Mountain is offering a dose of the Olympic Spirit as they unveil the only Superpipe available in Southern California. This 18-feet high, 580-feet long and 65-foot wide competition-class pipe is now open to all skiers and snowboarders who visit Bear [...]

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. February 11, 2010 – Today officials of the Amgen Tour of California announced the Stage 6 route from Pasadena to Big Bear Lake. On Friday, May 21 the world’s top professional cyclists including Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Dave Zabriskie and George Hincapie will battle it out on the Tour’s most challenging [...]

Big Bear Lake CA; A winter advisory remains in effect until 10:00 AM this morning. Winds may gust to 35 mph. Our overnight snowfall was eight inches and another foot of accumulation is possible. Road conditions are R2, if you’re vehicle is not 4 wheel drive, you’ll need to chain up.
Snow conditions are the best [...]

Snowshoe the Bear is this Saturday, February, 6. The event welcomes both experts and complete novices. It starts in the Big Bear Lake Village at 8:00 AM and goes out into the San Bernardino National Forest. There is a fully marked five and ten kilometer course. Enjoy fun, family atmosphere and live music.

 Throughout the year Big Bear is full of events.  During the warm days of summer, Big Bear hosts the annual Jazz Festival offering live jazz. The combination of live music and a magnificent mountain setting attracts a devoted audience that returns every year.

Old Miners’ Days has been a Big Bear favorite for years and is [...]

Big Bear Lake is host to three art galleries, a local arts council, a community arts theatre society, and a state-of-the-art performing arts theatre.  The Arts Council of Big Bear Valley promotes art and music through service programs such as the “Magic of Music” and events, including Art on the Lake and the Big Bear Lake [...]

From A to Z, Big Bear residents can find a club or organization that meets a need, offers an opportunity to serve, or provides a learning experience. At last count, there were 87 Big Bear clubs and organizations.
Big Bear offers the traditional service clubs such as the Big Bear Lions, Elks, Kiwanis, Moose, Optimist, Rotary [...]

The City of Big Bear Lake (the City) and the Community Services District (the CSD) govern Big Bear Lake and Big Bear City, respectively.  Big Bear Lake is the western portion of the Big Bear area and Big Bear City, the eastern, with the dividing line being Division Street.
The City was incorporated in 1980, with [...]

Old Miner’s Days has been a long tradition in Big Bear Lake. We went into our collection of Big Bear Lake ephemera and found these advertisements that were placed in the newspaper. Many of them are hilarious. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
 

Map Old Miner’s Days

Pioneer Town to Big Bear Lake

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The call of the wild!  What pictures the phrase brings to the mind at this season, the spring of the year when the blood is pulsating with renewed life and when the spirit of man hungers for the outdoors.
Visions of pine-encircled lakes, flower sheets on deeded subdivision land, making a total of of hamlet—and tree-gemmed [...]