![Professor Lowe had a dream to make the beautiful Mountains overlooking the cities of Altadena / Pasadena accessible to average citizens. After much planning, many exploratory trips on horseback, he and Engineer Thomas McPherson located a series of routes that could be built upon with a series of rail cars to reach miles back into the forest and eventually all the way to the top of Mount Wilson. Financing the project himself, Professor Lowe proceeded to build his dream which eventually reached all the way to the base of Mount Lowe (named after Professor Lowe, previously known as Oak Mountain). At its peak, it was the top honeymoon destination in America. Beginning with the famous red car lines in California, Professor Lowe extended the line up through the rolling hills in Rubio Canyon where a small hotel was built at the base of new incline rail systems that would take a visitor up a mile along a ridge overlooking the LA Basin to the top of Echo Mountain.
The top of Echo Mountain became a little city of its own with places to eat, order picnic lunches, shop at stores, dormitories for employees, power generating station to power Echo Mountain facilities. There was also a trolley repair building and pit, observation decks at various spots, trails that could be taken by hikers both up and down the mountain and into the Alpine regions, tennis courts, stables and a now little known zoo. The entire assembly of buildings were painted white and because of the view from far below, became known as "The White City in the sky". The “opera box” great incline cars were also white and could be seen from afar ferrying up and down the hill. On a ridge behind the Echo Mountain ridge was an observatory building with a working 16 inch telescope housed in a round domed building. The foundations can still be found at the site as well as the cement stand which is what the telescope was mounted upon. It was Professor Lowe's intention to build the rail system all the way to the top of Mount Wilson along with additional hotels and facilities on the top of Mount Wilson. Later, much of the path of the large 100" telescope and observatory built on Mount Wilson was used to transport the delicate 100" mirror to the top of Mount Wilson.
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La Expedia hjelpe deg med å oppleve det beste Altadena har å by på! Hvis du planlegger en tur til Altadena, kan vi gi deg en liste over de mest populære severdighetene, i tillegg til å hjelpe deg finne fantastiske ting å gjøre. Uansett om du drar til Altadena sammen med familien, planlegger en romantisk tur sammen med noen du er glad i eller besøker området i forbindelse med forretninger, så gjør vi det enkelt for deg å legge opp en uforglemmelig ferie som gir deg alt du ser etter.
Altadena-aktiviteter
Altadena er stappfull av steder du ikke må gå glipp av og aktiviteter du burde få med deg. Vi kan hjelpe deg med å velge hvor du skal bo mens du oppholder deg i Altadena og gjør det lekende lett å utforske Altadena. Det spiller ingen rolle hvor lenge du blir – det er uansett enkelt å finne attraksjoner i Altadena som gjør at du nyter ferien til fulle og ikke går glipp av noe. La oss ta oss av lokalkunnskapene så du kan la stresset ligge igjen hjemme.
Spennende aktiviteter i Altadena
Altadena tilbyr noe for enhver smak, så uansett om du planlegger en aktiv sommerferie, en oppfriskende romantisk reise eller en avslappende vintertur, så vil du alltid ha nok av aktiviteter i Altadena å underholde deg med. Expedia gjør det enkelt å bestille fly, hotell og leiebil på forhånd, slik at reisen blir mindre hektisk og gir deg bedre tid til å utforske severdighetene i Altadena.
Det kan være tidkrevende å se etter ting å gjøre i Altadena, men vi kan hjelpe deg med å få en mindre stressende opplevelse når du planlegger ferien. Uansett om du ser etter en aktiv utendørsferie i flott natur, en kulinarisk reise gjennom eller en visitt innom den levende kulturen i området, så vil vi gi deg en fantastisk oppdagelsesferd du sent vil glemme, uansett årstid. God tur!
