Idyllwild Nature Center — Attraction in Idyllwild-Pine Cove

Awesome day in the mountains! Beware, the curves are dangerously narrow (single lane). Once your there, you pay a 12 dollar per vehicle charge to use the installations and trails. There are 4 trails that take about an hour each. Easy to difficult. The difficult one takes you all the way to the summit. After that you can do some unlimited shopping at their local thrift, gift, jewelry, vintage, candle, and soap shops. There is only one Italian restaurant that allows outside seating for dining, but their dinner plates run about 18 bucks. Gas is cheap at 3.09 for unleaded regular. I saw one Chippie on the road back so the highway is patrolled. I think I'll be coming back to rent a cabin for a weekend. I'll keep you...

Took today, a Friday, off to spend time with the family and enjoy some snow. The nature center was pretty much perfect for what we were looking for. Paid $10/adult, kids were free. Got there early, around 1030 am, only a couple other people there. Walked a little ways down a trail and got to sled, saucer, build a snowman on pristine, untouched snow. . . Awesome. Worth the price. Even when there were plenty of other cars, it did not feel crowded AT ALL. Just walk a little ways down a trail and you get your own seemingly private snow play area. Not sure how the...

Gorgeous location. The great thing about living in southern California is that one minute you can be in a desert environment with dry, 68 degree temperatures and then half an hour later you are walking around in snow in 36 degree temperatures. The bad thing about living in southern California is everything else. All the stupid people and the taxes and the laws, politics and all the other nonsense. But if you find yourself in S. Cal and you are tired of the nonsense, go to Idyllwild, is beautiful and the people there are great. It will make your forget you are still...