Grizzly Flats Railroad
The Grizzly Flats Railroad (GFRR) was a 3 ft gauge backyard railroad owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball at his home in San Gabriel, California.
The Grizzly Flats Railroad (GFRR) was a 3 ft gauge backyard railroad owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball at his home in San Gabriel, California. The railroad had 900 feet (274.3 m) of trackage and operated from 1942 to 2006. It was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States.
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Worth seeing in and around Grizzly Flats Railroad
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California, United States. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th century European art and 17th to mid-20th century American art.
3.7 km · library and art museum in San Marino, California · Wikipedia - 02Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. It was founded by the Spanish Empire on the Nativity of Mary September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish missions in California.
3.8 km · Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California · Wikipedia - 03Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 127 acres, is an arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site nestled into hills near the San Gabriel Mountains in Arcadia, California, United States. Open daily, it only closes on Christmas Day.
3.2 km · arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site in Arcadia, California, United States · Wikipedia - 04Huntington Desert Garden
The Huntington Desert Garden is part of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The Desert Garden is one of the world's largest and oldest collections of cacti, succulents and other desert plants, collected from throughout the world.
3.4 km · Calfornian botanical garden for xerophytes · Wikipedia - 05San Gabriel Mission Playhouse
The San Gabriel Mission Playhouse is a historic performing arts venue located in the Mission District of the city of San Gabriel, California, United States.
3.8 km · theater and movie theater in San Gabriel, California, United States · Wikipedia - 06Westfield Santa Anita
The Shops at Santa Anita is a super-regional shopping mall located in Arcadia, California, adjacent to the Santa Anita Race Track.
2.7 km · shopping mall · Wikipedia - 07Reid-Baldwin Adobe
The Reid-Baldwin Adobe, formerly called the Hugo Reid Adobe, is an adobe house built in 1839. It is located at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California.
3.1 km · California historic landmark · Wikipedia - 08Baldwin Lake
Baldwin Lake is a sag pond in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, which is in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California, south of the San Gabriel Mountains. The pond, arboretum, and botanic garden are all within the city of Arcadia.
3.2 km · lake in United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Grizzly Flats Railroad
- Airports
- Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 28 km · Long Beach (LGB), 34 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 36 km
- Stations
- Sierra Madre Villa, 3.3 km
- Ontario → Grizzly Flats RailroadTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Santa Ana → Grizzly Flats RailroadTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- San Bernardino → Grizzly Flats RailroadTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Grizzly Flats Railroad
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Grizzly Flats Railroad. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPrime Time offers shared-ride vans which serve the Pasadena area from LAX.
- Get inStand under the orange "shared ride vans" sign in the center concrete island outside the airport.
- Get inIt is a large charter-style bus and is occasionally not labeled.
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Grizzly Flats Railroad is 17 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.