Four Points Bulletin

Travels north, east, south, and west of our Oceanside home base.

A trip to Lake Havasu wouldn’t be complete without getting on a boat so we booked the Copper Canyon tour through Sunset Charter and Tour Co. Copper Canyon is an abandoned mine, the largest copper producing mine along the Colorado River. Now it is a spring break hotspot, where boaters go to jump into the …

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In 1915 a large claim of gold was found in Oatman, and so begun a quest to find more. Within fifteen years it was estimated that 36 million dollars worth of gold had been mined in the area. It became a ghost town, however, when the interstate was built, and Route 66 that runs through …

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For over a century, before the London Bridge was purchased and relocated to Lake Havasu City, the London Bridge spanned the River Thames in England. When the 130,000 ton bridge was purchased in 1968 (including its vintage lamps made from the melted down cannons of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army) it became the world’s largest antique. Robert …

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The Grand Canyon has been admired for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until the railroad arrived in 1901 that more people were able to access one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Photography studios, hotels, souvenir shops, concessioners, cabins and restaurants popped up in no time, creating the Grand Canyon Village. These …

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Jerome is an old copper mining town, perched on the edge of the Black Hills of Arizona, one hour from Prescott. Jerome was founded in 1876, and was once known as the wickedest town in the west. I guess that’s what three million pounds of copper per month does to a town. There were 15,000 …

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Watson Lake was created in the early 1900s, one or two man made reservoirs at the Granite Dells (about four miles from Prescott). The Granite Dells is a 1.4 billion year old geologic feature of intriguing rounded boulders, rock layers shedding off over time like the layers of an onion. There is a 4.8 mile …

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Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research facility in the Palomar Mountain Range (located at 6,142′ elevation). Inside the observatory is a 200″ Palomar telescope, the world’s largest telescope from 1949-1975. Unfortunately, due to the snow and the proclivity for San Diegans to go absolutely crazy over snow in our local mountains, the observatory remained closed …

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