Cucamonga Rancho Winery

The house Tapia built is gone and the vines are not. He planted on the Cucamonga grant almost as soon as he had it in 1839, and the sandy wash that made poor farmland turned out to suit wine grapes better than almost anywhere in the state. Cucamonga was a serious wine district for over a century, thousands of acres of head-pruned vines, before the freeways and the tract houses took most of it. A little of it is still in production.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 15 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 18 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Cajon Pass — 18 mi
  The gap the San Andreas tore between two mountain ranges, and the doorway every westbound traveler has used for two centuries.

More markers nearby

• Tapia Adobe (Site of) — steps away
• Madonna of the Trail — 2.3 mi
• United States Rabbit Experimental Station — 9.5 mi
• Site of the Rancho Chino Adobe of Isaac Williams — 10 mi