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Baldwin Lake is a natural, intermittent, alkali lake in a valley of the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County, California. It is located east of the Big Bear City. The lake is at a surface elevation of . Its deepest point it can be approximately . At its widest, the lake is more than across. It is in the headwaters watershed of the Santa Ana River. The surrounding terrain is Chaparral habitats. Baldwin Lake is within the 156-acre Baldwin Lake Ecological Reserve. 〔(CDFW−California Department of Fish and Wildlife: Baldwin Lake Ecological Reserve website )〕 It is at the intersection of California State Route 18 and Holcomb Valley Road on the north side of the lake. Hwy 18 wraps around the northeastern and northern shores of Baldwin Lake. ==Namesake== Benjamin Davis Wilson encountered the lake in 1845, while tracking horse thieves in the San Bernardino Mountains. When Wilson saw that the region was populated by many grizzly bears, he divided his 22 men into hunting partners. The men slaughtered 11 bears for the fur pelts. While returning to Jurupa (Riverside), they slaughtered another 11 bears for the fur. Wilson named the region Big Bear Valley, and the lake he called Lake Big Bear.〔(History of Big Bear Lake )〕 In 1884, the Bear Valley Land and Water Company began construction of a dam southwest of the lake. The company's stakeholders named the new reservoir Big Bear Lake. They also renamed the alkali lake to Baldwin Lake, after Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin, who came to Big Bear and Holcomb Valley in 1876 when he purchased Gold Mountain Mine (later renamed Baldwin Mine). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baldwin Lake (San Bernardino County, California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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