- City:
- Lakeshore, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Bathhouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Kaiser Pass Road (opened in 1927) resulted in increased travel to Mono Hot Springs on the west side of the Sierra Nevada near Huntington Lake – one of the best-known hot springs in California. Therefore, the Forest Service decided to utilize the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to upgrade the facilities there.
In 1934, the CCC men constructed a bathhouse and several auxiliary buildings over the concrete-walled springs on the south side of the San Joaquin River. On the north side of the river, the CCC built a campground.
The buildings were torn down in 1963 and a new bathhouse built on the north side of the river. The CCC-built concrete walls for the hot springs are still in use, as in the campground.
Source notes
https://www.monohotsprings.com/history/
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on June 22, 2017.
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