Chimney Rock

Two plaques stand at this pullout and they do not agree. The state's, set in 1986, says the Indians defended themselves fiercely, were driven into the desert, and lost their mountain gathering grounds to encroachment in the years afterward. The older one beside it calls this the last Indian fight in southern California, and has a posse surprising a camp, killing and wounding many, thus ending the hostilities. The same February day in 1867. The accounts do not even agree on who was camped here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cajon Pass — 26 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.
• Original McDonald's Site — 28 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 31 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.

More markers nearby

• Old Bear Valley Dam — 14 mi
• Holcomb Valley — 16 mi
• Daley Toll Road Monument — 19 mi
• Mormon Road — 22 mi