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Mount Diablo State Park Between 1933 and 1942, the CCC made an Clayton (925) 837-2525 enduring impression on California’s state parks. This park is noted for its eponymous Before the Great Depression, California had collection of stone “Diablo Stoves” (outdoor designated thousands of acres as state parks, but cooking hearths), which characterize CCC park lacked the funding to develop them. By 1935, facilities throughout California. The CCC also California hosted more than 30,000 CCC built the Summit Museum atop Mt. Diablo’s enrollees, including about 7,400 working in 3,849 foot peak, constructed of sandstone state and national parks. The men of the CCC blocks quarried in the park. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt built bridges, roads and trails, utility systems Mount San Jacinto State Park Seventy five years ago, the United States was in and campgrounds, restrooms, visitor centers, Idyllwild (951) 659-2607 the midst of the Great Depression. The slumping staff housing and other facilities that made it Mount San Jacinto stands 10,834 feet above economy pummeled American workers. Tens of possible to open up the state parks to the public. sea level, and offers two drive-in campgrounds. millions lost their jobs; others took lower paying They also erected more elaborate features such CCC work includes a summit shelter, two work simply to scrape by. By 1933, desperation as recreation halls, open-air amphitheaters, residences, Diablo stoves and picnic tables. museums and lookout towers. At its peak in the and poverty were wide spread, with no end Mount Tamalpais State Park in sight. mid-30s, the CCC invested nearly $2 million per year in California’s state parks. Mill Valley (415) 388-2070 Soon after taking office, President Franklin Mount Tamalpais has a spectacular view of National Park Service architects designed the Delano Roosevelt (FDR) proposed a “civilian San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean new state park facilities in the “Park Rustic” conservation corps” as part of his New Deal from its 2,571-foot peak. The CCC built the style, emphasizing the use of native stone and to lift America out of the Great Depression. Mountain Theater (a.k.a. Cushing Memorial timber to create structures that complimented FDR envisioned a peacetime army composed Theater), a natural stone amphitheater that of unemployed men, who would engage in the landscape. Park Rustic architecture employed minimal detail or embellishment, seats 3,750 people and continues to be used highlighting instead the natural beauty today for theatrical productions. “simple work . . . confining itself to forestry, of the building materials and the local Palomar Mountain State Park the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, settings, as well as fine craftsmanship. Aguanga (760) 742-3462 The California State Park System owes and similar projects. More important, Palomar Mountain State Park is one of the its signature look to the thoughtful few Southern California areas with a Sierra however, than the material gains, will be designers of the National Park Service. Nevada-like atmosphere. CCC features the moral and spiritual value of such work.” The CCC built some 1,500 structures and include the park access road, Doane Valley landscape features in California State Parks Campground, a Ranger’s residence and fire lookout towers. The Emergency Conservation Work Act of during the 1930s. Many survive, although some 1933 created the Civilian Conservation Corps are now in dire need of repair. The people of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park (CCC) to give young men across the nation the California owe a debt of gratitude to the men Big Sur (831) 667-2315 opportunity to do useful work and support of the CCC, whose hard work, strength, and Pfeiffer Big Sur features redwoods, open their families. The CCC also provided access enthusiasm forged the unique character of meadows, and dazzling views of the Big Sur to education and medical care. But most California State Parks. coast. CCC features include the nature center, important, it restored dignity and hope to recreation hall, outdoor theater, drinking millions of Americans. www.parks.ca.gov fountains and several residences.

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