Little-known park marks 30 years this summer and may get a boost from $30 million to finally build out its original vision. Columnist David Allen gets a tour.
California Citrus State Historic Park
As we stride along, trees on both sides of us along the curving path, it’s possible to forget we’re in the 21st century. “Part of the idea,” Dangermond recalled by phone later, “was that people would go there to buy citrus, similar to Oak Glen during apple season.” “We were never able to build it out,” Vince Moses, who was heavily involved in the master plan and earlier feasibility study, told me by phone.
But without bond money, “we opened with a visitors center and that was as far as you could go,” Moses said ruefully. “We had to go incremental.”
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