Ever since Eddie posted up about the Airway Beacons I've been kind of obsessed with finding them. :crazyeyes: Come to find out there are hundreds if not thousands of them scattered across the US. As Eddie mentioned the transcontinental airway system initially connected the east coast with San Francisco. This route generally followed the the Union Pacific Railroad. By the mid 1930's additional routes were added. The California Desert had its share of beacons and airfields linking Los Angeles and Southern California.
Since we live in the High Desert (Palmdale, CA) I decided to ask Google if any of these beacons ever existed in the Antelope Valley. Well, low an behold there were two of them. In fact, there was one not more than a 1/4 mile from our first house in an area called Lovejoy Buttes. (N34 35 46.14720 W117 51 36.16555) located one mile west of Lake Los Angeles in the Antelope Valley. We lived there for about 6 years and I never heard of these beacons until Eddie mentioned them in this thread.
Since it is located only 20 minutes from where we live now, Steph and I decided to take a ride out to beautiful
Lake Los Angeles and see what we could find. Unfortunately we only found remnants of a Beacon that once stood at the highest peak in Lake LA. Here are a few pics from our short adventure...
