Daley Toll Road Monument

Edward Daley and Company cut this road in 1870, one of the first into the San Bernardino Mountains that a loaded wagon could actually manage, and charged for the privilege until 1890, when the county took it over. It is a Forest Service fire road now and closed to the public, so the monument marks a route you can stand beside and not travel. Highway 18 does the same job today, and does it so easily that the toll years are hard to picture.

What the plaque says

Built by Edward Daley & Company 1870.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Arrowhead Village — 1.9 mi
  A reservoir that lost in court and became a resort — and the 1920s village that made its name was burned down on purpose.
• SkyPark at Santa's Village — 2.6 mi
  The Christmas park that opened six weeks before Disneyland, and franchised itself on advice from the McDonald brothers.
• Lake Gregory — 4.1 mi
  A New Deal dam built by a Redlands orange grower, for the opposite reason to every other lake on this mountain.
• Original McDonald's Site — 8.5 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.

More markers nearby

• Mormon Road — 4.5 mi
• The Arrowhead — 5.6 mi
• Garcés-Smith Monument — 7.9 mi
• Site of Mormon Stockade — 9.6 mi