Box Canyon Historical Site
USA /
California /
Julian /
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/ USA
/ California
/ Julian
World / United States / California
Location where the Mormon Battlion, in December, 1846, hewed a wagon road in the rock to circumvent an impassable dry waterfall in the creek bed. Small parking area and informational signs, monument.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 33°0'51"N 116°26'32"W
- Blair Valley 3.8 km
- Kentwood II 14 km
- Kentwood 15 km
- Whispering Pines 16 km
- Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves 24 km
- Descanso 24 km
- Mountain Palm Springs Area 25 km
- Arroyo Seco del Diablo 28 km
- Canyon Sin Nombre 32 km
- Alverson Canyon, aka Fossil Canyon 45 km
- Shelter Valley, California 6.6 km
- Lake Cuyamaca 12 km
- Harrison Park 12 km
- Cuyamaca Rancho State Park 14 km
- Julian, California 15 km
- Pine Valley, California 22 km
- Descanso, California 23 km
- Santa Isabel Reservation 26 km
- Viejas Indian Reservation 29 km
- Alpine, California 35 km