Pinnacles East Entrance District: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Pinnacles National Monument, National Park Service
Provencher S, Warner L, Fitzgerald K. 2002. Pinnacles East Entrance District: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Pinnacles National Monument, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 700017. NPS Pacific West Regional Office. Pacific West Regional Office/CLI Database
The Pinnacles East Entrance District is a 797-acre historic designed landscape within Pinnacles National Monument, one mile east of the geologic formations that give the monument its name. The features associated with the district reflect the period of early park development and administration and the craftsmanship of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and are generally located along the washes of the Chalone and Bear Creek drainage systems. The district is locally significant under National Register Criteria A and C for the period of significance of 1923-1941. The period reflects the years of early park planning and development combined with the efforts of the CCC. The first major road building effort into Bear Gulch was begun in 1924 with funding from local merchants, however it was not until 1933 when a CCC camp was established at Pinnacles that major public road improvements and facility construction occurred. The CCC abandoned Camp Pinnacles in 1941, ending the period of early park development. The landscape district includes park roads, the Chalone area, Condor Gulch, the Bear Gulch administration area, and Moses Springs area. Major features within the landscape include the entry road, entrance pylons, rock retaining walls, culverts, tree wells, and early park buildings. The site continues to fulfill its historic function as the location of park administrative functions, and the majority of character defining features and landscape characteristics contribute to the district’s integrity as a designed landscape. These include buildings and structures, circulation, cluster arrangement, land use, natural systems and features, spatial organization, topography, and views and vistas. Small-scale features have lost their integrity and do not contribute as landscape characteristics. As a whole, the cultural landscape of the Pinnacles East Entrance District is in fair condition and retains integrity as a designed landscape.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Provencher, Shaun; Warner, Len; Fitzgerald, Kathleen
- Date of Issue
- 2002-07-17
- Publisher
- NPS Pacific West Regional Office
- Units
- PINN , PWR
- Keywords
- Architecture, Bear Gulch, Camp Pinnacles, Cholone Creek, Civilian Conservation Corps, Condor Gulch, Conservation of Natural resources, Historic Designed Landscape, Landscape architecture, Leisure, Moses Springs, Naturalistic Landscape Design, Origin and Development of the National Park Service, Poverty Relief and Urban Social Reform, Recreation, Road-Related, Rustic style, Social History, The 1930s: Era of Public Works, Transportation
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 700017: Pinnacles East Entrance District