Yucaipa Rancheria

Yucaipat meant wet lands, and the Maara'yam who named it lived here most of the year on springs and creeks, going up into the mountains for acorns in the harvest season. The name is the part that survived. Everything the town is called comes from a Serrano word for water, and the people who supplied the word were pushed off the ground it describes within two generations of the ranchos arriving. The adobe plaque a few steps away tells the second half.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 13 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 15 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Cajon Pass — 28 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

• Yucaipa Adobe — steps away
• Kimberly Crest — 4.2 mi
• The Zanja — 4.6 mi
• A.K. Smiley Public Library — 5.2 mi