Idyllwild-Pine Cove-Fern Valley is positioned in the US Idyllwild-Pine Cove-Fern Valley - Idyllwild-Pine Cove-Fern Valley Idyllwild, Pine Cove, and Fern Valley are three adjoining unincorporated communities, of which Idyllwild is the largest, positioned in the San Jacinto Mountains in Riverside County, California, United States.
The Idyllwild improve also generally includes the hamlets of Mountain Center and Garner Valley, though individual inhabitants embrace this association to varying degrees.
"Mile-high Idyllwild" is a prominent southern California mountain resort about one mile (1.6 km) in altitude.
Idyllwild is bordered by two large rocks, Tahquitz Peak (with close-by Lily Rock) and Suicide Rock, which are famous in Southern California modern climbing circles.
One of Idyllwild's attractions is that it offers all four seasons, yet in winter is only an hour's drive down to the desert on the Pines to Palms Scenic Byway.
Idyllwild has earned the designation as one of the 100 Best Small Art Towns in America Idyllwild was also voted L.A.'s Best Mountain Getaway. The arts thrive in Idyllwild in the form of art, music, and theatre.
In order to furnish statistical knowledge for Idyllwild, Pine Cove, and Fern Valley, the United States Enumeration Bureau has defined Idyllwild-Pine Cove as a single census-designated place (CDP).
Idyllwild was once the summer home for bands of Cahuilla Indians, who migrated to the region to escape the heat of lower altitude deserts.
Idyllwild was known originally as Strawberry Valley because of the wild strawberries that expanded there, especially beside the creek that runs through the town, Strawberry Creek.
In the 1880s, the Domenigoni family of San Jacinto homesteaded territory near what is now the Idyllwild Arts Academy.
With the advent of the automobile, Idyllwild became a weekend tourist attraction for citizens in Southern California.
From the 1930s to 1950s, Idyllwild was a center for the manufacturing of "knotty pine furniture", the fine log furniture made in the Arts and Crafts style.
In 1946, Ernie and Betty Maxwell established the Idyllwild Town Crier weekly newspaper, which has been in continual operation ever since.
The Town Crier presently is owned and directed by Idyllwild House Publishing Company Ltd., a small, local, family-held California general corporation on North Circle Drive in Idyllwild.
The Idyllwild Town Crier has received various awards from the National Newspaper Association, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the California Press Association.
Timothy Leary lived on a ranch in close-by Garner Valley, with the ranch serving as the command posts of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Currently the ranch encampment in Garner Valley is directed by Camp Ronald Mc - Donald for Good Times as a year-round retreat for kids with cancer and their families. From 1974 to 1979, Idyllwild hosted the Idyllwild Bluegrass Invitational, then the only bluegrass music festival in Southern California (it was inspired by the Julian Banjo-Fiddle Contest, which still goes on today on the third weekend in September).
Idyllwild also hosted the Bear Flag Festival in the 1950s through the 1970s, a festival to honor California's Bear Flag and to mark the passing of the grizzly bear from California, the last of which, as stated to small-town legend, was killed at Hurkey Creek in Garner Valley.
Most high school-age students in Idyllwild attend school in Hemet, which requires them to travel by school bus some 35 miles (56 km) in distance and 3,000 feet (910 m) in altitude to and from school.
Since the 1950s, some Idyllwild parents have agitated for a high school in the town, and there have been many attempts at establishing high schools, but most of the schools proved short-lived.
Startup schools that floundered included Hi-Lo, or LIFE (Living in Free Education, a enhance school positioned at what is now the Idyllwild Arts Academy, directed by Mary Glavin in 1973-76), New Schole Ranch (a private school in Mountain Center), and Freedom Schools, Inc.
Desert Sun School (later called the Elliott-Pope School), a private boarding school that accepted boarders and day students, closed in December 1990, due to financial mischief, after operating for 65 years in Idyllwild.
Idyllwild and the close-by areas of Garner Valley and Lake Hemet have been used for recording since the silent film era.
Ranch at Keen Camp, midway between Idyllwild and Garner Valley. A number of Westerns have been filmed at the Garner Ranch in Garner Valley: Guns and Guitars (1936), Heading for the Rio Grande (1936), Springtime in the Rockies (1937), Brothers in the Saddle (1949), Riders of the Range (1949), and Storm over Wyoming (1950).
In 1961 and 1962, the Elvis Presley musical Kid Galahad was filmed in Idyllwild and vicinity.
The biker funeral procession from the 1966 film The Wild Angels was filmed in Idyllwild and encompassed the Silver Pines Lodge, which was titled Hillbilly Lodge at the time of the recording.
The Idyllwild-Pine Cove-Fern Valley region is positioned in Southern California's San Jacinto Mountains, which contain 10,834-foot (3,302 m) high San Jacinto Peak, Southern California's second highest mountain, after Mount San Gorgonio.
Idyllwild lies mostly inside a high mountain valley bisected by a small year-round stream, Strawberry Creek.
Pine Cove is situated in a ridgetop locale nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) higher than Idyllwild.
The populace was spread out with 741 citizens (19%) under the age of 18, 285 citizens (7%) aged 18 to 24, 652 citizens (17%) aged 25 to 44, 1,423 citizens (34%) aged 45 to 64, and 773 citizens (20%) who were 65 years of age or older.
The Idyllwild, Pine Cove, Fern Valley region has a several small-town governmental agencies: Idyllwild County Water District, Pine Cove County Water District, Fern Valley State Water District, Idyllwild Fire Protection District, County Service Area 36, County Service Area 38 and Idyllwild Historical Preservation District.
In the California State Legislature, Idyllwild-Pine Cove is in the 28th Senate District, represented by Republican Jeff Stone, and in the 71st Assembly District, represented by Republican Randy Voepel. In the United States House of Representatives, Idyllwild-Pine Cove is in California's 36th congressional district, represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz. Idyllwild School is K-8 and part of Hemet Unified School District.
Idyllwild Arts Academy is a college preliminary program for grades 9 12 and post-graduates with a focus in the arts.
Hemet High School is part of Hemet Unified School District and is positioned in Hemet.
The Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District operates the Idyllwild Park and Idyllwild Nature Center. For over 60 years the improve has been the home of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, which began in 1950 as a summer arts program for grownups, families and children, established by Bea and Max Krone.
Administered by the University of Southern California from 1964 through 1985, the program was known as ISOMATA - Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.
In 1985, the Foundation purchased ISOMATA from USC, and followed by the beginning of the private Idyllwild Arts Foundation (IAF) in 1986.
In January 2010, Idyllwild hosted the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, with over 40 official selections from around the world.
Film actors who have owned or still have homes in Idyllwild and the encircling area include Charles Laughton, Marjorie Main, Sharon Lawrence, Barbara Hershey, Conor O'Farrell, Doris Day, Michael J.
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