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Camp Junipero Serra
Summer camp near Wrightwood California in the 1950s
Youth Camps near Jackson Lake in 2006
-- AYF Camp - 22214 Big Pines Highway N
-- Camp Mariastella - http://CampMariastella.com/ - Wrightwood
-- Camp Wrightwood - 1401 Linnet Road · Wrightwood CA 92397-0066 http://campwrightwood.com/ | live cam |
-- Kare Youth League - 24557 Hwy 2 - Wrightwood CA 92397 | http://mountkare.org/about_us.htm |
-- Wrightwood Camp and Conference Center - 22800 Big Pines Highway N4 : http://wrightwoodecamp.org/ |


-- YMCA 21280 Big Pines Hwy. YMCA Camp E.L.K. |
-- YMCA 22401 Big Pines Hwy. YMCA Camp Coulter Pines | Home |

Jackson Lake

Harmony Pines : http://angelescrest.com/hp/ |
Angeles Crest : http://angelescrest.com/directions.html |
Wrightwood

-- Camp Mariastella : http://CampMariaStella.com/home.html |
Catholic Sisters of Social Service

-- Methodists Camp Wrightwood : http://cal-pac.org/camping/wrightwood/ |




Camp History
Youth Camps in the Jackson Lake Area of Big Pines
1930s

All Nations Camp - in Fenner Canyon - All Nations Foundation - June 2, 1937

Verdugo Pines Bible Camp -  Boy Scouts of America Verdugo Hills Council - Dec. 14, 1939
-- Directly behind Jackson Lake
-- Terminus of the Boy Scouts Silver Mocassin Trail through the San Gabriael Mountains


1940s

Harry James Camp later...
-- McKinley Home for Boys - Kiwanis Club - January 9, 1940 - later...
-- Camp Commerce - City of Commerce Parks and Recreation - November 17, 1961

Teresita Pines - Catholc Daughters of America - permit reissued on Sept. 3, 1940

Camp Manzanita - directly across from Jackson Lake
Girl Scouts Los Angeles Council - Sept. 3, 1940 -- later permitee Santa Monica Council



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- Catholic Youth Organization of Los Angeles - September 3, 1940
Camp Metaka at Apple Tree Meadow - Campfire Girls Rio Hondo Council - December 31, 1940

Camp Mariastella - in Wrightwood - Sisters of Social Services - since 1941

YMCA Camp - Just beyond Camp Junipero Serra - March 24, 1943
-- closed in 1975

Campfire Girls Long Beach Council
-- Camp Hemohme - in Sleepy Hollow adjacent to Jackson Lake - Nov. 40, 1944

Girl Scouts - Centinella Valley Camp - just below Big Pines Divide - December 23, 1945
-- Girl Scouts Santa Ana Council - east of Big Pines - January 2, 1953
-- Camp Deer Ridge - Camp Marion - Santigo Camp -
-- Campfire Girls San Bernadino Council - August 3, 1961

Camp Mountain View - east of Big Pines - Mountain View School District - January 21, 1947

Sherman Camp for Indian Boys - just across the highway from Jackson Lake - Nov. 30, 1948 - later...
-- Camp Hawthorne - just across the highway from Jackson Lake - 1961 - later...
-- Club Gunga Din Yourth Center - City of Hawthorne


1950s

Twin Valley Camp - east of All Nations Camp
-- Girl Scouts Whittier Council as of 1954 -- permit reissued March 8, 1956
-- Girl Scouts East San Gabriel Council 1965
-- Girl Scouts Spanish Trails Council 1967

Glendale Youth Camp - just east of Big Pines - later...
-- Camp Comiche - Compton School District - just east of Big Pines - May 15, 1958


1960s

Southern California Bible Conference Camp -  Baptist Church - April 19, 1963
-- Directly behind Jackson Lake on site of former Boy Scout camp from 1939

Camp Marion - Boys Christian League of Arcadia - east of Big Pines - April 24, 1963
-- later Mt. Karl


1970s

Camp Kesaab - directly across from Jackson Lake - Los Angeles Education Assoc. - March 19, 1971


Permit dates Unknown
Neighborhood Yourth Association Camp - Episcopal Church - east of Holiday Hill
Methosist Leaders Lodge - in Wrightwood
Indian Springs Ranch - Lone Pine Canyon



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