Pan Hot Springs Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/1/2018
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


No need to trespass. Should be an easy find. Lucky Golden Dollar for FTF. Also full of goodies. Here's some info on this location.. Just a few miles east of the Big Bear lake is a unique little known geological feature, a natural hot spring. For centuries this place was a favorite spa for the local Serrano Indians. In 1921, Emile C. Jesserun arrived in Big Bear and purchased the hot spring along with 40 additional acres from the owner of the Shay Ranch. In 1924, he built a large resort on the site of the hot spring, and called it the Pan Hot Springs Hotel. Jesserun’s hotel was located just east of today’s Paradise and North Shore Drive intersection. It sat alone in what had, up until then, been grazing land. This was years before Big Bear City, any of the roads or homes that are now in that area ever existed. The Pan Hot Springs ball room had a medieval decor with suits of armor, hanging tapestries, swords and lances decorating the walls. Jesserun also built two swimming pools, indoor and outdoor, that were filled with the naturally flowing hot mineral water. The Pan Hot Springs Hotel was an immediate success. Unfortunately it burned to the ground in 1933, just nine years after it was built. It was never rebuilt, but the swimming pools were reopened to the public, and they served the Big Bear community up until the early 1990’s, when they eventually had to be destroyed because of earthquake damage.

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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