pauma

Updated: April 30, 2025

We crossed the Pauma Creek, and some distance beyond it we left the river to our right, turned sharply to the left, and ran up to the base of Smith's, or Palomar Mountain. Then came the grade up the mountain. If you are not stout-hearted, and haven't a powerful machine, avoid this beautiful drive. If you are not driving an air-cooled car, carry extra water with you.

J. A. Graves - Out of Doors—California and Oregon

Leaving Pala, we followed the main road along the left bank of the San Luis Rey River where the San Diego Highway Commission is now doing work, which will, when finished, bring one to Warner's ranch by an easy grade until we had gotten a few miles into the Pauma rancho.

J. A. Graves - Out of Doors—California and Oregon

Pauma Creek flows out of this meadow through a narrow gorge, which nature evidently intended should some day be closed with a dam to make of the valley a reservoir to conserve the winter waters. We followed a partially destroyed road through the meadow to its upper end. Then as high and dry land was within sight we attempted to cross a small, damp, but uncertain looking waterway. Wheels Stuck.

J. A. Graves - Out of Doors—California and Oregon