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Idyllic Idyllwild: a weekend in the woods
Can we get a few additions to these bi-monthly articles from various news sources telling visitors to come up to our small mountain town? 1. People need to travel up and down the mountain due to work, emergencies and various other "non-vacational/non-sightseeing" reasons of more importance. Turnouts and signs exist for the very few ways in and out. While my best advice would be to not come up here if a visitor has a fear or uncertainty of driving up mountain roads, those of us that live up here would appreciate visitors using the very numerous and clearly marked turnouts when they feel the need to drive 20 mph under what the vehicles behind them are driving. Not only for common decency, but safety for all as well. Second, our forest is not a good place to drop trash. It is actually a very bad place for it, because we actually have developed the necessary technological levels to possess (and in abundance at that) trash cans. Finally, our driveways are not parking spots. I understand that parking is limited within our very small and, ideally quiet in between articles, town. I would fault poor planning on the town's end for limited parking, but being approximately 100 miles from multiple extremely crowded cities with frequent articles enticing their residents to visit seems to be a larger culprit. Regardless of the true cause of our limited space, the town is not built to hold 10% of every surrounding city at any given time. Joshua Tree was not either, however they are desert and simply destroyed more of the available semi-flat earth to build more parking. I assume the same is in our future, however until we make a concrete mountain our driveways and small roads need to be clear. With that said, many of us own large chains and even larger trucks that can at least solve that problem and often do. Also, we hear Big Bear is really nice.— October 29, 2018 3:49 a.m.