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5 unusual facts about San Bernardino Mountains


California State University, San Bernardino

The nickname was inspired by the coyotes that inhabit the area around the campus, which lies on the foothills of San Bernardino Mountains.

Loma Linda University Medical Center

Because of its height and white coloration, it is possible to view the main hospital building from various locations around the San Bernardino valley and mountains.

Pinus contorta

murrayana — Tamarack pine, or Sierra lodgepole pine; Cascade Ranges from Washington into Northern California, the Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges of Southern California (including the San Bernardino Mountains), the Peninsular Ranges into northern Baja California, and the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.

Podistera nevadensis

Podistera nevadensis is endemic to California, where it is known only from the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada, the White and Inyo Mountains, and the San Bernardino Mountains.

The Goddess of Lost Lake

Scenes for The Goddess of Lost Lake were filmed at Big Bear Lake and the Pinecrest Resort in the San Bernardino Mountains.


Linanthus killipii

It is endemic to the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, where it is known from only a few occurrences in the vicinity of Baldwin Lake near Big Bear.

Norco shootout

The perpetrators then ambushed the pursuing deputies and engaged them in another shootout in unincorporated San Bernardino County near Lytle Creek before escaping into a wooded area in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains.

Physaria kingii

One, the San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod (ssp. bernardina), is a very rare plant known from only a few spots near Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California.

Tauschia parishii

It is endemic to California, where it occurs in several mountain ranges, including the White and Inyo Mountains, the Tehachapis, and the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains.


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Forest Falls, California

The rocks immediately surrounding Forest Falls are basement rocks characteristic of the major part of the San Bernardino Mountains, that is, Paleoproterozoic gneiss, Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic marble and quartzite, and Late Cretaceous granitic rocks.