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Big Bear Lake, California

San Bernardino County · Population 5,046 · Card no. 10036

A mountain resort town at 6,750 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains, with two ski areas and a lake built by a dam in 1884.

The original dam was built to store irrigation water for Redlands orange groves.
Bald eagles winter on the lake.
Hollywood used the valley for westerns for decades.

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