Vallecito Stage Station

The name Vallecito, is the word for "Little Valley," in Spanish and just so happens to date from the Spanish times. The valley was the objective of travelers that went to California from Sonora in the early years of California.

During the Gold Rush phase immigrants in great numbers stopped to refresh themselves and their animals after what was known as "The journey of Death" through the Imperial Valley. The road through this valley was the great southern immigrant trail, and was the only wagon road into Southern California. A Reconstruction in 1934 of the Vallecito State Station was built at the end of the Great Colorado Desert, and it has originally been built in 1852. Vallecito was a key stop for Army detachments that were going out of and going into California, from the time General Kearny's Army of the West stopped here on the road to defeat at San Pasqual. The house turned into a station on the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Route in 1857 (“Jackass Mail Line”), and in 1858 it was made one of the stops of the famous Butterfield Overland Stage Line. It is one of the most important landmarks left over from the great stage line between Missouri and San Francisco. The building that can now be seen in the area is not the original one but rather a reconstruction. This is located nineteen miles south of Scissors Crossing which is twelve miles east of Julian on Highway 79.

The superstition hills and mountain
The Superstition Hills are located right on the southwest area of the junction of highways 78 and 86. This Mountain is located right behind the hills to the south side.