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California mountain resorts suffer when natural disasters close Highway 18.
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San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
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September 28, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 San Bernardino County Sun. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Joe Nelson
Sep. 28--From Waterman Canyon in San Bernardino to the Big Bear Valley and down to Lucerne Valley, Highway 18 spans the San Bernardino Mountains and is the primary corridor to mountain resort communities.
Mountain resort areas including Big Bear Lake and Lake Arrowhead are dependent on tourist dollars to thrive and depend on the highway to get those tourists to them.
"It's the golden dollar highway. It's the revenue stream," said Alan Sharp, vice chairman of the Big Bear Chamber of Commerce, which serves the entire Big Bear Valley.
But when wildfires, snow flurries and mudslides force the closure of the highway, it rattles the economic ...
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