FLASH FROM THE PAST
Arroyo Seco Canyon, north of Pasadena, opened for tourists in 1884 when Commodore Perry Switzer established a camp there. Tourists reached the camp by stagecoach, horses and burros. They slept in tents or rough cabins and dined on trout pulled from the Arroyo Seco stream.
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