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Around Big Bear Lake
The neighbourhoods, the daily rhythm and the drive to everywhere else — the part of a home search a listing sheet never covers.
See homes near here →The desk is building a real map of Big Bear Lake — outdoors, local flavor, the commute and daily errands — rather than printing a generic list.
The desk hasn't surveyed wine & local flavor around Big Bear Lake yet — this card fills in as soon as it has, real names only.
Places from OpenStreetMap, September 10. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Distances are straight-line from the city centre, not drive times.
Where Big Bear Lake actually breaks down, in the desk's own words.
Full neighbourhood file →One of Big Bear's most popular mountain neighborhoods, built up around the rope tows constructed here in the 1940s and early 1950s at the base of what is now Bear Mountain Resort.
Named for the fox farms that operated in the area from the 1920s through the 1940s; the neighborhood backs up to the Boulder Bay inlet and the Castle Rock Trail.
A lakeside neighborhood on a calm-water inlet of Big Bear Lake, anchored by the redeveloped Boulder Bay Park and Pleasure Point Marina.
A lakefront neighborhood near Meadow Park and the marina, among the city's most direct-lake-access residential areas.
The historic commercial core of the city, built from the handful of small businesses, eateries and lodges that made up 'town' in the earliest resort era and later redeveloped into the pedestrian Village district.
The lake's north shore is home to the Big Bear Solar Observatory, built by Caltech starting in 1968 and connected to land by a dirt-and-rock causeway, now operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Ordinary life in Big Bear Lake, the way it actually runs — not a highlight reel.
An early walk at Rotary Park, before the day starts properly.
An hour at Veterans Park, between the errands that never show up on a listing sheet.
Dinner at Nottinghams Restaurant & Tavern, then a short drive back to whichever neighbourhood you call home.
Illustrative scenes, not photographs of the places named. Places from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Real listings live in Big Bear Lake right now — not a wish list.
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Active listings, as of September 22. Photos are illustrative — not photographs of the address on the card.
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