Visiting All Five Corners of California

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

Steve, So glad you re-created this adventure 20 years later. Your episodes were fun to watch, but sorry you picked the absolute WORST summer day all year up at Tahoe. The late Huell would have been proud of you.

[@jamesnackley5558]

This is my favorite show

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you.

[@mobiltec]

Excellent premier. Love the way you put 5 videos together for this.

[@nationalist818]

congratulations on 200k Ive been here since about 1k and always thought you deserved more subs.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you, I appreciate all the support.

[@ninaellyson814]

Wonderful of you honor Huell Howser! 👏👏👏 I watched him for years until his passing. I found your channel and it is very interesting and enjoyable and I really enjoy it like it did Huell. Thank you! -Nina.

[@svenswwis436]

RIP Huell Howser, and thank you Steve.

[@laurencannon6334]

I love how you visited the Huell Howser Archives. I clicked on this video thinking "I wonder if this is going to be similar to when Huell visited the California corners." I think Huell would be proud and give an uncomfortably long hand shake. Thanks for sharing the beautiful state of California with us!

[@edgarsandiego1294]

Steve, there should be a sixth corner of California if you include the Lake Tahoe as a fifth corner. The sixth is the tripoint where the corner of CA, NV and AZ meet on the Colorado River. Good work on your channel, I love it. Thanks.

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

Agreed

[@hori166]

Thanks! Trudging to, down, and up from that ravine to the NE marker deserves some compensation. This is an adventure that I myself might undertake. Your videos are well researched, informative--and unlike many other "history" channels, you use actual historical photos and visuals to document your storyline. Thanks again!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

[@UMtiger311]

this was a really fantastic series steve. great work

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rogertemple7193]

This was really awesome seeing all five corners of California for your great videos thanks.🏜🇺🇲🏞

[@acdnrg]

As always, beautiful and interesting places. We travel to the US every year, visiting one state per year. This year´s trip to SoCal was partly inspired by your past travels and that guided us to great sites. Than you for giving these insights, it´s great food for thought to visit places with a good bit of background historic information. You run a great channel and we always get something out of it. Thank you!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you, I really appreciate it and glad I could help!

[@MischaFellner]

There was a show called Huell Howser, California’s Gold, and he touches each corner of the state. I recall him mentioning the upper left corner is about 2 miles south of where it is supposed to be meaning a little bit of Oregon is actually California. Surveyors did it wrong or something like that I recall

[@nicholaswilks580]

The border was originally defined in the 19th century, and there were some surveying inaccuracies at the time. The border was intended to follow the 42nd parallel north, but due to the challenges of surveying in that era there were minor inaccuracies. Some surveys did result in the border being slightly off, leading to discussions about whether it was precisely where it was supposed to be. However, the official border remains where it is today, despite those historical surveying issues. So, while there may have been some inaccuracies, the established boundary has been maintained since its designation

[@MischaFellner]

Cort lindahl channel has some of that Bidwell history stuff all packed up in video.

[@BrenSobolspage]

​@@MischaFellnerthe historical Bidwell mansion in Chico, CA burned down last week. So many historical places slowly disappearing in CA.

[@towelsnapped]

Thanks!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you. I really appreciate it.

[@pamelasplace7429]

That was fantastic having all 5 corners together! Thank you for taking us along on all of your adventures!

[@davidvandyken5762]

This is amazing. Im so glad you went to all the time, expense, and effort to do this. I remember watching Huell Howser visit these corners as well. Though, I think that a 6th corner should be considered, where the CA/NV/AZ state lines meet at the Colorado River.

[@CliffClaven22]

Steve, thank you for your series, I have learned more from them than in any history books. You’re an inspiration to our youth & myself @ 77 y.o. May the dear Lord watch over you in your travels, again thanks 👍

[@Bojangles5-2]

What a long haul for you and your travelers to make for this trip! I never thought I would see all 5 corners of CA! Thank you so much for this and for your other ventures, all for our benefit!

[@PasleyAviationPhotography]

Just noticed your subscriber count is 199k! So close to 200, I wish I could help push that along but I'm already subbed. It just blows my mind that the count isn't at least five times that by now.

[@revvyhevvy]

I know! SA should have at least every Californian and former Californian (I left in 1961!) that would bring up the totals quickly!

[@nathanlowry3764]

“Getting here is only half the journey.” The other half is the journey back. 😂

[@MarvinGunnerySergeantRetired]

Okay, I thought I recognize some parts of this video. Wasn't sure if it was a repeat. Outstanding job as usual

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you. Yes, it's the other videos combined with a couple minutes of extra footage.

[@tristanparsons2938]

From a New Zealander. Appreciate the vids. Love visiting the states. Especially the California region through to desert areas. Such old and also new history in those regions. Keep it going!

[@tzadik36]

Thank you for this video! A consolidation of several prior videos of the various corners. Great videography and narration.

[@davidclark9150]

Thanks Steve . I love your videos. It was so funny when you admitted you left the flag in the car. We've all been there.

[@Chrisb8s]

I loved this. Thank you. I had to watch with some breaks. Pretty much all I watched this Saturday. So nice.

[@saxophool]

Congrats on 200k! 😎

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thank you!!

[@araghara4746]

Hurl Howser did such great work and I’ve missed him so much. Thank you picking up the baton!

[@16voyeur]

Perfect on a Saturday afternoon! Thank you!!

[@curtr5162]

I liked your remembrance to Huell Howser. I really enjoyed his shows. No one promoted CA more than Huell

[@AlphonseCapone-q6o]

Thanks for sharing I’m sure huell would have enjoyed this as well

[@thesarge4457]

Liked the video, always a pleasure Sir. THE SARGE

[@johnlord8337]

The green bottle in the NE California border corner marker is an Owens-Illinois Duraglas feature since 1940. The bottle has these circular ridges on the bottom of bottles/jars giving the foot of the bottle greater strength, greater gripping feature to any horizontal surface, and also protect against cold shock to the bottle, shattering the glass. I suspect that it is a 1960s bottle if I could look closer at the Owens-Illinois O I symbol and the plant and year marks on the bottom. Looking at the Owens-Illinois Plant codes and an extreme zoom view of the bottle bottom, it appears that Plant 17 was the glass manufacturing plant. You would think that Plant 20 in Oakland, CA or Plant 23 in Los Angeles, CA would be this bottle maker, but it actually came from Plant 17 which is Clarion, PA operating from 1930-2010. So my presumption is that the bottle and a state conservation program of a concrete pour at the monument happened in the 1960s-1970s.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Very interesting. Thank you for the insight. I wondered when the concrete might have been added.

[@JaniceinUtah]

Love your channel we have been to a lot of the places you have visited. You find some we haven't been to. So thanks for that. We will try to explore those in the future. In case you don't know, a "ladder" over a fence is called a style. Looking forward to seeing more of your adventures, thanks.

[@revvyhevvy]

A compilation vid! Excellent!

[@simplefamilylife9512]

Hello Steve. I like your channel. I think you making very good job. 😀❤

[@patsysmith540]

Thank you so much.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

You're welcome!

[@mssixty3426]

This was such a great travelog, even more impressive than your usual excellent videos. I enjoyed every minute! Haha! " . . . I think the California water is pushing against the Nevada water." 😄

[@johncamp2567]

This was such an excellent series!! Always interesting!! 👍👍

[@michaeljimenez1203]

Nice Compilation. All combined together nicely. I believe Huell was smiling down on this one. And I think he would of given you and Mrs. Sidetrack, a Big Thumbs Up for your efforts.

[@Garydigsit]

hi steve, enjoy your videos bud

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Glad you like them!

[@bachscar]

Thanks for the retrospective on California's 5 corners. It was a nice post-workout diversion for me. San Diego FC's home opener next year is against my team, St. Louis City. Good luck!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I'm looking forward to the season. Hope they can get the issues with the field worked out. I just saw that the Wave moved their final home game because of the conditions.

[@debshed9684]

I love your videos thank you for this long video. It was wonderful to just lounge. Play on my iPad and watch your adventures.

[@rikspector]

Nice recap, some trip. You are the man! Cheers, Rik Spector

[@johannahartzell1407]

I had a job to get done and your voice in the background helped me get through it. Thanks for the great video!

[@adambennett2176]

Thank you!! Year in the spring lets go to Colorado and new mexico

[@jamesnackley5558]

This was really fun. I hope you try it again soon!

[@steve0504]

Great video! Love all your videos! Great job!

[@natemcdonald8853]

Okay Steve the five corners were great , but there are also 5 Peninsulas (to be argued I'm sure) in California ! Can you do those sometime ? That would make this old Surf Boy happy !🏄🏼‍♂️

[@romalacroix8162]

Great Video, I never would of thought about the corners. Thank You, ❤😊✌️

[@jeffminor1583]

Great video, thank you for making this. Very enjoyable and interesting. Appreciate all of your work!!

[@Howoldareweanywayyipes]

Very interesting, Steve... thanks for your knowledge.

[@Imtheverdant1]

Great show! If you were to dive into borders a little deeper you will find that to establish where you are at you have to use meridians. California has 3 principal meridians. 2 that run east west and 1 that runs north south. The southern meridian is named the San Bernardino Meridian. It runs at 34*07*13* from the Pacific Ocean due east to past the Arizona California border. I live in N.E Los Angeles in the community of Atwater Village. Just so happens that this meridian runs less than 50 feet from my house. To me this fact is a source of civic pride, something to be proud of. I wish I could say that others in my neighborhood feel the same. Thanks again for producing and posting this video.

[@KittyGonzalez-bc8ee]

56:00:00 ONTO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CALIFORNIA FROM THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER @ TYE BORDERS OF OREGON, NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA...Just another 750 mile adventure with HISTORY! Wait..arent we going to stop in Lake TAHOE??? Hmmmmm...Can't argue with my tour guide...carry on...forward march.

[@KittyGonzalez-bc8ee]

❤😂

[@AlyxGlide]

I'ma wait for the VOD

[@jeeper5264]

Love your videos Sir...even though you are a Padres fan lol...Keep em coming please !!!!...on Edit..Thank you for recognizing Huell!!..You are no Huell but close.!!!!!!!!.again...very much enjoy your videos

[@rchoper21]

I a huge Huel Howser fan! Did California Gold inspired you to create your channel? Awesome episode! Love your channel inspite of you being a Padres fan!😂

[@mason__hilliard]

Steve, iv never considered the five corners of California... thank you for sharing this... very interesting stuff

[@tombyrne6433]

THanks you taught me a lot as a native Californian!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Happy to help!

[@charliedbq]

Thanks Steve and Jessica!

[@Peter_Schiavo]

Well done. I watched it all.

[@gus473]

Got my notification on, Steve, tho it's earlier than my usual lunchtime.... 😅😉✌️

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thanks!

[@mwalako]

Another 26 years of great videos and you can have your own exhibit at Chapman University.

[@calidank9513]

Wow I was a kid when I would watch Huell howser R.I.P

[@stevenkaskus6173]

Got my notification on for this one Steve

[@MountainGirlwIPA]

Grew up visiting that park. Early 80s. I remember friends getting super sick from surfing in IB.

[@william2william]

Huell Howser approves of this video.

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

If Huell Howser counted 5 corners, wouldn't there be six by his definition? The six being near Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona. Great video, thank you! Edited: I saw your reply below about a separate video of Ft. Mohave. I will check that one out.

[@thefred8481]

Thanks again professor…

[@SidetrackAdventures]

You are welcome.

[@hond654]

50:58 well done, not many reached that point!

[@QuicksilverSG]

Great tour! But isn't there a sixth corner at the junction of California, Nevada, and Arizona? It's due West of Fort Mohave, about 10 miles North of Needles.

[@briannave7326]

Very interesting video, very informative.

[@ROE1300]

👍 Nice tour, thank you for sharing.

[@brucetrue]

Great videos, but could the friendship park be anymore depressing!

[@christinawiseman-gc9jh]

I wish you would have shown a little of the nightlife around lake Tahoe. Your accommodations and where you had dinner would have been interesting to see what that atmosphere was like. Really have enjoyed this video though The best thing about your videos over most of them that are available is all the information in history you give. It must take a lot of research and I love history. As long as I don't have to do the work to find it. Video a movie. Maybe a book if it gets much harder than that. I give up and evidently that's where you excel. Thank you watching you from Yuma AZ

[@praiserdusty]

Great movie

[@rickcoleman8903]

Pretty cool

[@RivhardDavenport]

I love all the effort you put into your shows!!!!!!

[@inthedirt3224]

great video I watch a lot of your videos too.

[@leighbloom]

I remember when Huell did a similar show as this one and when he found the boarder marker for the California and Oregon he went into either a store or restaurant that claimed it was a business in Oregon and Huell told the owner of that place that they were actually south of the Oregon border and they were actually a business inside California. The business owner got quite mad at Huell and told him to get out of his business because it wasn’t true 😎

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

Very interesting. I wonder if that marker was correct because I remember in another video that Steve and Jessica did on the northeast corner of California and the problems of the border markers there. There different surveys were done and then finally the US Supreme Court in 1980 determined the legal border.

[@kenmcdonald3824]

Awesome Video...Thanks!!

[@juliogonzales5441]

THANKS SAN..DIEGO STEVE 😊

[@cynthiamcgee4829]

Wow very interesting history about Swansea. I never knew it existed. And I'm learning a lot of history about my country that I never knew about at least this end of it.

[@jamesnackley5558]

This is the live director’s cut!

[@CatPianoClassics]

So why isn't the area around Needles considered the sixth corner? I'm curious now.

[@MyHatDefinesMe]

California: The Movie 🍿

[@johnlord8337]

Hmmm .... looking at Google Maps and another aerial map, there are 3 geological haystack (pluton) rocks at the (said) Oregon/California shoreline border and California Pelican State Park. All 3 are south of the border line by ~978 feet. I can't find any names for them as they fall into the Pyramid Point Marine Conservation and Protection Area

[@IceLynne]

It seems that years ago we built a water treatment facility to handle the sewage in Tijuana...is it no longer working?

[@SidetrackAdventures]

It got overwhelmed during one of the storms.

[@IceLynne]

@@SidetrackAdventures hopefully they'll get it working again.

[@t.s.4707]

I was wondering the same thing.

[@pattimessenger6214]

I used to live near Imperial Beach. I thought the wetlands were pretty. Glad I left before the sewage problem got so toxic!

[@JamesNotBoring]

i’ve always wondered what the north east corner of CA is like

[@Arturo-sm1tb]

Huell Howser had quite an "adventure" in the NE corner... If there was any one episode of his where he appeared perturbed, that was it.

[@cindyfall8063]

😊

[@philipegner5779]

Question for Steve: How do you narrate your hikes without huffing and puffing? Is the audio added later?

[@Hootncozy]

I’m in Crescent City.❤ the most north west part of the state.

[@Zelzega]

The CA water pushing against the NV border 😂😂😂

[@toymaster5464]

I read in the Los Angeles times that there's a proposition to tax about $3K on vacation homes near or around Lake Tahoe to help with affordable housing? What's next... tell ya someone is trying to change things!

[@Corgis175]

Nice compiliation of all your former vlogs on the subject.

[@gregshaffer6067]

What about the sixth corner near Fort Mohave?

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Huell Howser didn't go there. I did go there in a different video right after this though. If you look for my Fort Mohave video you'll see it.

[@dannybuilding1044]

@ 6:33 the same thing the pup most of thought about you.

[@jamesnackley5558]

This is where you get busted right🤣

[@Christopher-v7u]

I would love to get enough money to own that abandoned ship that's beached.

[@MichaelTitera]

Why does the U.S. allow the sewage infested Tijuana river to flow into San Diego/Imperial Beach?

[@rzz9594]

Turds a plenty …. 💩💩💩

[@stevesjeep3383]

Since the sw corner wall was built on US land, maybe you were on the sw corner, down by the water in Mexico.?