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Big Bear Lake -Things To Do

09
Jul 2010

From the Big Bear Lake Chamber of Commerce (MAP):

We have two zipline companies which can take you zipping through the trees, enjoying beautiful views along the way, Call ahead. One takes you to the Johnson Valley, and the other is up at the Cedar Lake Camp area.

We have a company that can take you off-roading in their own vehicle, which will save the wear and tear on yours? Just throw your sandwiches and drinks in the cooler , and they can take you where you want to go. There are set tours, but they can be tailored to suit you, and they are very reasonable. This company takes the studios out to search out movie locations for future films.

If you want to do your own off-roading (

MAP for Moonridge to Sugarloaf), pick up a trail map and have fun! And don’t forget to pick up an Adventure Pass, which permits you to stop on Forest roads.

If you brought your own guns, you can try out the Shooting Range at the weekend.

Scenic Flights of the Valley and mountains are available for you to get a bird’s eye view.

Take the family bowling any time! Glow bowling at night, pool table, arcade games and great French fries. There is a full bar and a 105” tv. Don’t worry if you can’t bowl well, just push a button and the bumpers come up on the lanes.

We have a rescue animal park. The zoo (MAP) has been responsible for returning over 8,000 animals back into the wild! They have all kinds of animals you would expect to see in the mountains and desert areas, such as grizzly bear, black bear, wolves, mountain lions, owls & eagles! On the way there, stop at some great shops along Moonridge Rd., and check out the golf course next door. Did you know that your ball goes further because the air is thinner?

There is a petting zoo and horse riding stables at the east end of the valley. Go for a gentle walk, for the time span you choose. Open year round.

Go up to Snow Summit for a ski lift (YouTube Video)  chair ride to the top and hop off and hike around, hop back on to come down. or if you hooked your mountain bike on, on the way up, you can bike down. They have their barbecue going at the top, so it is easy to stick around to enjoy the views.

Stop at the bike rental stores for loads of info. And if you prefer street biking, they can help guide you there also. You can even rent the baby trailers to hook on the back of your bike.

If you like light walking along the shore to vigorous hiking amongst the rocks and trees, we have a trail for you.
The Forest Service runs the Discovery Center over on the North Shore. They run all sorts of activities: canoeing, kayaking, animal tracking, and have a display with animal fur you can touch, a gift shop filled with educational toys and books, and a café that has some outdoor seating with terrific views. People love to go and have their picture taken outside by the huge bronze bear. They run a summer concert series in their outdoor amphitheater and hold stargazing evenings, story-telling, and more……

Water activities include some great charter fishing companies with lake tours, several tour boats (Pine Knot Landing

MAP), parasailing, jet skis, jet boat tours, all kinds of boat rentals, from peddle boats, electric fun boats, to kayaks & canoes, fishing boats and pontoon boats. There are six areas around the lake for various watercraft rentals.

Go for a swim at Swim Beach, cleared of weed, lifeguard on duty, inflatable slide and trampoline in the water, or go to the water slide at Alpine Slide and try the toboggan slide, the go carts, mini golf and arcade games. Meadow park also has a large jungle gym to help the kids burn off some energy.

Be sure to check out our Museum. They have real old cabins, a schoolhouse and even a teepee! All are staged so you can see how it really was.

Our restaurants are all pretty top notch. From special occasion dining to steaks, seafood, bbq, ethnic food and fast food, there is sure to be something for every palette. Only one restaurant on the lake, but several with a view of it. Let’s face it, how could there not be a view of something wonderful in Big Bear?

Shop all around our beautiful valley, from west to east, and don’t forget to enjoy Friday Nights in the Village (

MAP). Family fun with activities, extra vendors, and free entertainment, and Wyatt’s Saloon at the Convention Center for family fun, really good food, and line dancing.

Pick up our information to see what is going on while you are here, and for when you come back!

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History

27
Jan 2010

Built by Guy Maltby, Big Bear City

About Peter Pan Woodland Club

Three hundred years ago the site of Big Bear City was a wilderness, a pristine valley of forest and sward, where Juniper and Pines of ancient age have battled victoriously with snowy storms and felt the ecstacy of calms –an earthly paradise, adorned with dashing streams and placid lakes, feed by melted snow, rivulets and percolating springs: in such a spectacle of loveliness is this “Never Land come true.” Here has been dedicated a happy memorial to the tribe of Peter Pan.

More than half a century ago, with the prodded burro bearing grub-stake, pick, shovel and pan, the adventurous prospector, lured by the quest of Golconda, located various claims –Doble and Rose mines becoming famous for their opulent output. Herdsmen followed the blazed trails of the miners, pre-empting the fertile sections. Pre-visioning the future of California, “Lucky” Baldwin became the possessor of three thousand enchanting acres, especially valuing the abundant water supply, now sagaciously held by the projectors of the Big Bear Land and Water Company.

First only an idea, with remarkably rapid progress, Big Bear City has become a sylvan resort of distinction. Deliberately protected from the commonplaces of commercialism, its architecture, paved Boulevard, twenty miles of improved Streets, rustic Bridges over artificial lakelets and lagoons, Tennis Courts, and the vernal sward of Golf Course, embraced by a sequestered Bridal Path, two major lakes, Baldwin, and Big Bear, where, on the latter, a floating Boat House is moored, with a little flotilla of Fishing Boats, Duck Blinds, a level mile of Airport, nearly a hundred private Homes of aesthetic pattern, surrounding the new Club site, the Lodge, and Administration Building, Mill, Fish Hatchery, Pan Hot Springs, Swimming Pool, Ski Way and Toboggan Slide –all contribute to make an unsurpassed recreational and sports rendezvous, adequately equipped and so designed that the charm of rusticity has been maintained, though augmented by all the conveniences of a modern caravansary.

To conserve the coveted water-rights, now of inestimable value, while the preliminary building of Big Bear City has been in progress, Peter Pan Woodland Club became a necessity. Thousands of Members –lovers of Sports, Recreations and Games of the virile out-of-doors, Hunting and Fishing –have made this latest feature a boon. Valuing the retention of their water-rights, the Sponsors of the Club have cautiously conserved the irreproachable character of Peter Pan’s congenial constituency, by requiring a normal, fun-loving and moral ideal of deportment. The response of the Public –all who, in the verve of human vigor, can with Peter exclaim “I’m youth, I’m joy” –has occasioned the massing of a tremendous Membership.

Four major roads, kept by the State and County in excellent shape, the announced completion of the “Big Bear Highway,” and the perfecting of the local Airport has made “Peter Pan” a mountain mecca. Many thousands of property owners have lifted Big Bear City above the level of vagueness and hope –established now, as it is, as a captivating certainty. Here multitudes of rusticants may learn, as Barrie exquisitely expresses the quaint truism, that “To live would be an awfully big adventure.”

Peter Pan Woodland Club

Peter Pan Hunting Reserves

The primitive pursuit of the human race was the Hunt, inducing that instinct in every normal Nimrod.Peter Pan private Hunting Preserves bordering Big Bear City, surrounded by the Government Forest Reserve, remain a wilderness, where rugged canyons and isolated vales become the rampart of retreating wild herds, and torrents of melting snow and bubbling springs serve the thirst of the illusive deer, or the now nearly extinct Grizzly, Mountain Lion and Wild Hog. Belligerent game occasionally may be sighted within a day’s vigorous climb. Deer, subject to the State’s protective provision, is frequently brought in from its chosen haunts –as venison, on stated days, at the Lodge is edible proof. Covies of timorous quail and doves are plentiful within three miles of the Club: all the smaller game that abound in California’s mountainous regions are here, waging their quest for existence. Adding to the thrill of the Hunt, what majesty abounds in this Hunter’s incomparable paradise, as it came from God!
Hunting in Big Bear City

Big Bear City California

The building of a City is never completed while the nucleus of attraction remains. So long as men and women work they must rest; and while Southern California shall grow, massing its millions, its recreational resorts must flourish in proportion to their unique allurement.Directly connecting with a Transcontinental Highway, nto exceeding a 6% grade over picturesque San Bernardino Mountains, Big Bear City – the terminal point of the City Creek, Victorville (desert route) and Mill Creek roads – is now easily accessible, through landscapes of splendor. Set midway between Baldwin and Big Bear Lakes, scenically the environs of this celebrated resort beggars verbal description. The site is penetrated by paved Big Bear Boulevard, intersected by more than twenty miles of improved streets, umbrageously sylvan. Aesthetic architectural requirements conforming to the rustic mood, preclude the marring of the prevailing enchantment. With that ideal in mind, numerous plans and elevations are available without cost to property owners.

 

Big Bear City

Fishing on Big Bear Lake

FISHERMAN’S luck depends on the gullibility of the fish. But what devotee of Ike Walton can catch a string, where fish are not! In the waters of the vicinity of Big Bear City, edged by rivulets and snow-fed lakes, vivified by springs, fish are in flourishing abundance.The State’s Government Fish Hatcheries are located on one of our streams, leased at a nominal rental. Selection of this site was due to the perfect purity of the water, the low temperature of 40 degrees, and easy accessibility. Under scientific supervision Baldwin and Big Bear Lakes, Green Canyon and famous Van Duesen Stream, with its purling pools, cascades and falls, are stocked with a million trout, annually.Continual “catches” are proof of Rainbow Trout and Black Bass in abundant supply. Boats, tackle and bait are available for the happy use of Members. Further supplementing the features that now attract the angler’s zest, the Seven Vagabond Lakes are proposed, stocked with Golden and Speckled Mountain Trout, Loch Leven and Dolly Varden, permitting all-year-round fishing, exempt from the State Fish and Game Laws.
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Pirates on Big Bear Lake

27
Jun 2009

Holloway’s Marina bought the Time Bandit (from the movie) and had the pirate ship brought up here. This is a short video of it on the Lake.

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Events in Big Bear

17
Jun 2009

Events in Big Bear CA
June 20 - 21, 2009

Big Bear Multi-Hull Regatta –Satuday June 20 and Sunday June 21, The Big Bear Multi-hull Regatta is set to take place on Big Bear Lake on June 20th and 21st. For more details or to register please call (909) 337-5428

Concerts on the Beach: Phat Cat Swinger –Saturday June 20 at 5:30 PM, The Big Bear Valley Parks and Recreation’s Concerts on the Beach series presents the group “Phat Cat Swinger” at Swim Beach at Meadow Park on Saturday June 20th. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Gates open at 5:30 PM and the concert starts at 9:00 PM. Families are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs. Snack bar will be open. Ticket holders may bring their own cooler, food and beverages. No Glass Please. All proceeds to benefit the Big Bear Youth Center. For more details please call (909) 866-9700

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Sentinel Day at the Moonridge Zoo Saturday June 20 All Day, This is a fundraiser for the Zoo’s relocation. Previously known as the Alpine Wildlife Celebration and renamed to pay tribute to the fan clubs of the actors of “The Sentinel” TV series. Open to the public, this event will feature our popular Animal Adoption Auction. For more information, please call (909) 878-4200 for more information.

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Big Bear Cowboy Gathering Wine, Whiskey and Chocolate Tasting –Sunday June 21, The Big Bear Cowboy Gathering is hosting a fabulous wine, whiskey and chocolate tasting on Sunday June 21st from 2-5 pm to support the 2009 Cowboy Gathering. The event takes place at 1925 Shady Lane in Meadowbrook Estates. The Barnstorm Café, Azteca, B’s Backyard BBQ, Sweet Basil and Hacienda are all providing wonderful appetizers for the event. Wines will be paired with the food for that perfect experience. There will be a variety of whiskeys to taste and flavorful bar-b-que ribs to go with the spirits. Tickets are $25 per person. Cindy and David Caretto and Liz Harris are preparing the chocolate desserts. The chocolates to die for!!! You’ll be able to taste Chocolate Bread Pudding, Chocolate Mousse, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, Chocolate Bark, Chocolate Turtles, Chocolate Biscotti and so much more. Yum! For more info please call Cindy Caretto 866-8481 or Liz Harris 866-1074

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Canoe Tours at the Discovery Center -Learn how to canoe on a leisurely 2-hour guided tour of beautiful Big Bear Lake. After a quick paddling lesson, you will cruise along the shore looking for beaver, great blue herons, and ducklings. Along the way you will learn the natural history of the Big Bear Valley along with the various flora and fauna found in the area. Children must be at least 6 years old and all children need to be accompanied by an adult. Includes water and a snack. Tours caravan to lake. Tours are limited to 14 people, reservations recommended. Call (909) 382-2790 or (909) 866-3437 for reservations. Fee: Adults $25, Children (6-12) $15.

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Weekly Farmer’s Market- Every Tuesday form 8:00 AM until noon. Enjoy farm fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers all summer long. The Farmer’s Market also features unique arts, crafts and handmade items by local artisians. New this year, outdoor patio with dining and expresso bar. At the Convention Center. For more information, call 909.585.3000.

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Pirate Ship on the Lake

13
Jun 2009

 

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