Lake Fulmor is a small artificial lake in California’s San Jacinto Mountains named after Alexander Chope Fulmor. In the early 1930’s, as Riverside County Surveyor, Al was mapping out a new mountain highway connecting Banning and Idyllwild and suggested damming Indian Creek at Hall Canyon to form not only a road crossing (Highway 243) but also impound a lake. The lake was completed in the spring of 1947 and opened in 1948 after it was filled by spring runoff from Hall Canyon into Indian Creek. It was named Lake Fulmor in 1949.
My first visit to the lake was as a teenager in the late 1960’s. We used to camp in the area every summer and swim in the lake. They say they stock the lake with trout, but blue gill are the only fish I ever caught there. What I find interesting about Lake Fulmor these days are the half dozen or so giant sequoia trees found on the northwestern side of the lake (far left out of frame, but don’t take my word for it – see below).
From Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany :
Not that it matters much in the grand scheme of things, but it makes me happy knowing they are there. Redwoods, and close to home, too. Cool. Photographs of them next time I’m there.