now good afternoon youtube so this bridge right here was rebuilt in 2016
up on stevens canyon road less than a mile up the road is the gate at the end of the pavement
on google maps this area right here is marked as laurel park it has a
point of interest or whatever they call those things
the place mark for google maps is over there but the creek is over here apparently back in the
1960s this creek right here was partially dammed up to make a swimming hole and there was a deck
and some sort of a slide i don't know if it was a water slide down in this area i don't know if
this big rock right here was part of that dam and then right over here is a big slab of concrete
that may have been part of the deck so yeah this is apparently the area where that was so i'm not
sure if this was like a commercial setup or if it was just some sort of community built
water park recreation area so all i can find information wise there was one review on google
maps that said this person used to come up here with their family in the 60s they'd load up their
station wagon and come up here and play in the water all day but i imagine there's been a couple
of big floods through here i know 83 there was a really big flood event and then since then there's
probably been a few more washed out everything and then with the bridge right here crete goes under
the bridge and then comes out on the other side they've done some habitat restoration so they have
that area over there closed and i think they did a fair bit of work in here cleaning out the creek
channel and sort of redirecting it under the new bridge abutments so most of this laurel park stuff
probably has disappeared over the years that would be what 60 years ago but yeah there's
a slab of concrete and maybe this was part of the dam here there's kind of a flat area but it looks
like it would probably be a good place you could have it damned up here because the the channel is
pretty deep up here and then it kind of opens up in this area so this is apparently laurel park so
if anyone has any information about that if you've ever been up here as a kid or know anything about
it i tried searching but unfortunately laurel park is a pretty popular name and there's laurel parks
all over the place and i cannot find anything specific about this area now let's go up the
road a ways here because there's some more stuff you can see right along the road there where
it goes around the corner that's an old stone wall let's go up there and take a look at that
yeah so here we are up the roadways and here's some remnants of an old rock wall there's a big
corner right there and like down here this this looks like it must have been an entrance here's
some more these look like old foundations in here and there's like a rock wall along there
foundations here and they kind of go up there this must have been an old building at some point
rocks set with mortar here there's a pretty large flat area in here probably a little homestead at
some point this rock wall continues up the road well probably a good hundred feet or so
and there's little foundation there's another one up here so that tree was probably here
when this was built and then you can see all these smaller trees have grown up
pretty intact there you can see some more of the walls there's a some sort of a round if that was
like a fireplace or something like that more walls up there so this is just up the road from
that laurel park probably an old homestead yeah it looks like a pretty big bench here
you know they might have had an orchard or some sort of farm area in here and the creek is just
right against the wall of the canyon there don't know what this is at all
but more interesting stuff so if i find anything on some of the old topo maps i'll
try to cut in a shot of at least the area and see if i can identify the building that shows
up on the map because i've got an 1897 map and then i think there's some from the 1940s
i imagine this is from the late 1800s most likely
so yeah if anyone has any information knows anything about this
go ahead and post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching