Sandberg, California

34°44′28″N 118°42′34″W / 34.741093°N 118.709534°W / 34.741093; -118.709534

Sandberg is the name of a post office and small surrounding community that was attached to The Sandberg Lodge (originally Sandberg's Summit Hotel), located on the Ridge Route highway in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of Southern California, United States. The Ridge Route linked the Greater Los Angeles area to the San Joaquin Valley and Central California from 1915 through 1933.[1]

The lodge was destroyed by a fire in 1961,[2] but the site lives on as a dot on northwestern Los Angeles County maps.[3] Sandberg was later the site of a U.S. weather station.

  1. ^ Ridge Route Communities Historical Society and Museum: The Sandberg Lodge
  2. ^ "Landmark Lodge Burns Near Gorman," Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1961, page 1.
  3. ^ Marika Gerrard, "Sandberg Residents Learn to Live With Isolation ‘’Los Angeles Times,’’ May 6, 1981. Two cabins survived the fire with one having been moved to a nearby ranch.