CUYAMACA RANCHO STATE PARK

This magnificent ranch of over 10,000 ha is a transition between the coast and the Anza-Borrego desert. First a Kumeya 'ay land (the land where it rains) of Indians, it is then that of the James Lassitor ranch in 1857. She also knew the era of the Gold Rush from 1869 to 1892, when he found the most important filon in California. It was only in 1923 that businessman Ralph Dyar dismantled the Stonewall Mine and the small town that grew around. Ranch became the property of the state in 1933 and serves the park.