The article makes it seem as though this is a walk-in-the-park drive. It isn't. It is a harrowing 40 mile journey to the dam. The last 22 miles is indeed unpaved. However, it is a very rough, twisting, turning, washboard mountain-following road. Many parts of the road are quite narrow and require a good amount of skill when two vehicles are side-by-side. The entire drive is full of sharp 90 degree or greater turns. I wouldn't recommend this drive for the feint of heart. If you do undertake this journey, you will be rewarded with some of the most spectacular mountain scenery anywhere. Canyon Lake is beautiful and the dam is quite a sight as well with the spectacular RT 188 arch bridge right there to take you back home.

Sad to say it's the truth -Dmrin, don't forget desert fires to come: do to the flicking of cigarrete butts.

There you go, send a few thousand newcomers out there daily and soon this will become trashed from to much use. Is nothing sacred from the deluge of people living in the valley.