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Desert View Tower
Lookout Tower
on
Boulder Creek
in
Sonoran Desert
near
Jacumba
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CA
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The Desert View Tower is located on Interstate 8, near Jacumba and Ocotillo, in western Imperial County, Southern California. It is at 3,000 feet (910 m) in elevation, in the In-Ko-Pah Mountains. The stone tower was built from 1922 to 1928 as a roadside attraction by Bert Vaughn, a real estate developer who owned Jacumba. The five-story tower houses a museum and has an observation deck on its upper level. The gift shop at the base of the tower is a later addition. An ensemble of stone sculptures of animal, called Boulder Park, is adjacent to Desert View Tower. They were sculpted by M.T. Ratliffe (or Radcliff) over two years during the 1930s in the local stone. Both the tower and sculpture garden are works of folk art.The tower and sculpture garden were listed on the National Register of…
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