updated 9/26/23
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MT. BALDY is an unincorporated community in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Upland nestled in the mountains is a small village. It is located below Mount San Antonio, commonly known as "Mount Baldy" where there is a ski lift that runs year-round for people wanting to visit the top of the mountain.
Mt Baldy has cold and wet winters with moderate snowfall. Temperatures often fall to 30 °F at night. It is usually 39–49 °F during winter; 25–35 °F at night. Annual snowfall is about 42 inches. Summer temperatures are mild to warm and can get chilly at night. Daytime temperatures are 76–86 °F with lows of 49–62 °F. Thunderstorms, though not frequent, occur in the afternoon and clear up by late evening.
Demographics; est. population [2021] 537; 1:1 male to female ratio; median age 52; 15% households have children; 85% do not; average income $81K; 12% below poverty level; 64% own; 36% rent.
History
In the early 1900s, Baldy Bowl, the upper south face of Mount San Antonio, transitioned into a recreation area. During this time, a series of bitter conflicts occurred between the San Antonio Water Company and various camp owners. Pollution of the watershed and the1899 brush fire led the company to take legal control of the road through the canyon away from Charles Baynham, close off the canyon with locked gates, and station armed guards to keep out intruders. But after some time and various legal battles, the company decided to profit from recreation rather than discouraging it. It bought Baynham's Camp in 1907 but then hired Baynham to manage it, charging tolls on the road from 1908 to 1922. The camp was renamed Camp Baldy in 1910, and in the following year the canyon became accessible by automobile. By the early 1920s there were numerous trail camps and resorts in the area. When the area became a national forest in 1908, the forest service began offering 99-year leases of plots of land, including at Camp Baldy.
During Prohibition, the area became known as a place where one could get a drink away from the watchful eyes of the police. Former Yosemite concessionaire Foster Curry, his wife Ruth Curry, and Ruth's second husband, movie star Edmund Burns, turned Camp Baldy into a playground for affluent residents of Los Angeles, with a swimming pool, casino, and a dance pavilion.
The Los Angeles flood of 1938 destroyed most of the human-made structures in Camp Baldy. The casino was destroyed, but the hotel (today's Buckhorn Lodge) survived. Camp Baldy was rebuilt and later became Mt. Baldy Village.
The community was established as Camp Baynham in 1906; it changed its name to Camp Baldy in 1910 and became Mt Baldy in 1951. Its post office was established in 1913. The Mt Baldy School District operates the Mt Baldy School in town. Mt. Baldy Village Church was founded in 1953. The Mt. Baldy Ski lifts are located above the town.
"Just north of Euclid Avenue, direct access to Mount Baldy; filled with trails, mountain vistas and some of the tallest peaks in the inland Empire."
Location of Mt. Baldy in SBC
Specific Prayer Points
Spiritual:
believers in the local church intercede for this rural town; people would be transformed by the gospel; people would share their faith with boldness; the Bible studies would attract more people, disciple them and in turn grow
Governed by: SBC District 2 Supervisor
Elementary school: LCAP — Mt Baldy School
Crime grade [2022]: Overall crime grade is B; violent B; property B-; and other crime is B; a crime occurs every 28 days 6 hrs. (on average) in Mount Baldy; top crime is drug related at 8%; theft 5%; vandalism 5%; burglarly 4%; car theft 3%.
Points of interest: Mt. Baldy Resort ; Ice Mountain Trail (reaches top of Cucamonga Peak)
Churches [not exhaustive]
Mt Baldy Village Church - Interdenominational
other churches nearby are in Upland and Rancho Cucamonga