Milk Ranch Road winds west from Lake Cuyamaca to La Puerta Springs. It’s a gradual elevation gain of about 500 feet to the first major junction with Azalea Springs Fire Road and those two loops ...

Lake Cuyamaca sits at an elevation of 4600 feet in an oak and pine forest, surrounded on three sides by the 26,000-acre Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. The dam that forms this 110-acre lake is the ...

In particular, Lake Cuyamaca has benefitted from the above-average rainfall this past month. The upper basin, which has been normally dry in recent years, is full enough to run the transfer pumps ...

Flash Flood Warning for Lake Cuyamaca, Other Mountain Areas of San Diego County by Chris Jennewein • Times of San Diego Aug. 20, 2023, 1:19 p.m. Aug. 20, 2023, 1:19 p.m. Share this: ...

Inside the small boathouse at Lake Cuyamaca, about 1,200 small trout busily swim in six aquarium tanks. They represent a small-scale, fish-farming experiment with lofty goals. If the lake’s ...