What's Inside the Desert View Tower of Southern California? 

Your youtube strategy of going to unique places without much competition on RU-vid is brilliant. Plus you guys do it so well. Storytelling is the strong suit of your channel. Roadside attractions are the best.

We visited the tower a few times when I was a child in the fifties and sixties. We moved to Seattle at the end of 1964. This past May I went with my sister and BIL to San Diego. We didn’t make it to the tower, but I took them to see the house our aunt lived in at Sunset Cliffs. Turns out, the house is a local historical house. My siblings, cousins, and I spent many happy hours there. It has always been my favorite house and I remember every part of it. I guess it also doesn’t hurt that I loved our aunt very much. It’s designated as Elizabeth Mills Spec House #1

It looks like a lighthouse in the middle of the desert lol. A lighthouse also has different floors when you go up the tower as well

Another fascinating spot guided by favorite dynamic duo!

You have a kitty with you? Aww ❤!! Subscribed!

Great music and effects. Enjoyed!

Excellent and unique too: A vertical garage sale with a view. Thanks so much!😂

What a fun trip! Thanks for sharing it!❤

0:37 I rode this last year, and, what a bumpy road! It was all closed, so I love your visit.

I have been to the tower many times and it is still someplace that I want to show to others. My first visit was in 1956, I was three years old. I absolutely loved the place. I recently took my lovely bride to the tower maybe two years ago and I had a nice time talking to the current owner. He tried to sell it to me but it would be difficult to manage it from Virginia. I declined the offer. Thanks for bring back one f my favorite childhood destinations.

Another great video! Just a short drive from San Diego, who knew?

I need to binge watch a bunch of your videos before my next trip to California. My family who lives there never goes to interesting places like this.

Enjoy the adventures. Ever been to Henninger Flats? Up the old Mt. Wilson toll road from Altadena. The LA County Fire Department Forestry Division maintains a nursery there.

Nice find.

I stopped there in the late 70s on a family trip. Then it was an antique shop. You know you're in a good place when you see an E. Clampus Vitus sign posted.

Love this video.

Fascinating.

I lived in San Diego fo years and never heard of this place. Thanks for the tour❤

such a nice place.

Great video! If you ever travel to Gold Rush country, a visit to the Preston School of Industry in Ione, once a boys' reform school, is a must!

*_You never cease to amaze me when it comes to finding these crazy places! As always, very well done!_*

good production!

you should check out the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno... Amazing... and many people live around it and have no idea it exists!

Thanks for showing me what I missed a few years ago. I made it to the parking lot and decided not to go in. I did notice the space ship, however, and all the trailers on the road going up the hill.

Such fun!

Thanks again👍👍👍

Thnx. Never heard of that place before.

Very Well Done as Always!!!! Thank you

As you said that this was epic!!! 👍🏻😷👍🏿🇨🇦🇵🇭🇺🇲

You guys find the craziest most amazing places. loved it. Very cool

Very cool spot! I'll have to add it to my CA points of interest. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing your adventure! Great video!

You guys never disappoint. That is a really cool place. Imaging making that trip in the 1920s and stopping there at the tower, wow!

Awesome! This is really, really cool. Thank You Beth & Drew!!

Heres an oddity, Redwood Grove in Carbon Canyon Regional Park, in Brea, CA, Orange County, off the 57 fwy. Its a place filled with Redwood trees.

Very cool. Love the sideways windows in the tower.

I used to go there all the time with my kids and my dogs😊

Any plans visiting Rudolph Valentino’s Whitley Heights hillside Spanish house? All that remains is the building’s foundation which overlooks the 101 Hollywood freeway.

Never heard of this place before! Will have to check it out on my next road trip!

You guys always make it so interesting. Not living anywhere near California, I get to experience a lot of what it has. Thank you for the videos.

I didn’t like living in Orange County, and I hated LA, but I loved going around to interesting places in the desert and such. Now I’m in Texas and I just wish it hadn’t been so expensive there because I grew up not far from here and never wanted to come back. It’s so much flatter and the only cool thing we’ve seen is wind farms and something that looks like a spaceship just sitting out in a field. So I’m staying subscribed to this channel because even though I can’t visit the places you do anymore, I still want to see them, even if it makes me homesick. Have you been to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway? That’s a good one to visit. Also Ortega Falls… may be covered in graffiti but I think it’s cool. I just wish I’d had the stamina to visit after all that rain. Also Black Star Canyon Falls trail… you two look up to the hike and I heard there’s some old buildings further in as well as a waterfall, but my daughter and I didn’t manage to get that far. I also heard it’s haunted, oooo…. and apparently so is the Katie Wheeler branch of the OC Library on old Myford Road in Irvine. And of course, there’s always Bunnyhenge.

Agree completely with you, Bethany and Drew. A visit to Desert View Tower would not be complete with also visiting Boulder Park. You find some of the neatest, most interesting, unusual, offbeat places to video, describe, and share with us viewers. Thank you so much! 👍❤👍❤

Great show, covered it very well. I have been by there but never stopped to see it.

Idk why but the "are you coming?" at 7:04 is so funny to me lmaoooo. Like hello get your butt up here

Love that place! And the climb😅 I try to take a group of high schoolers every year. Did you go to the top of the blouders and see the springs??

I love your channel so much. Thank you for all your work. Greetings from Yorkshire UK. John...

What a lovely lookout!

You might consider covering NittWitt’s Ridge in Cambria, CA. I met Captain NittWitt when I was a teenager. What a hoot!

How eclectic 😄

Last I visit this place was 5 years ago with family and my dog. Ben was very welcoming, he even asked me to let my dog off the leash to roam around since they had several cute dogs there hanging out. The view is amazing, you can even see the Salton Sea on a clear day. Just pack some lunch because there are no restaurants near that place.

I’ve been there!

Jesus. You two are really a couple of geniuses.

Those painted boulder carvings are so cool. Part carving and part natural landscape!

Thanks!

Hey liked the video!! 🫶🫶🫶

Interesting. Of the two, I found The Boulder Park more interesting than The Tower.

Dang, I was just there Thursday. I wonder what happened to Coyote and his flying saucer retrieval at repair service. (His stuff is near the entrance as you drive up, but he seems to have disappeared)

Been there 👌👌💕🌎

I’m curious as to what the device is your carrying around your shoulder/back. Sound recording equipment (?)

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Hi kids! 😻

A 'castle' tower without need of fortfications, that's the world I want to live in! Interesting video, presented in a natural way... Not like a *#*#*#* 'RU-vidr!' 🙈😂🤣👍 Best wishes from an Englishman making armour in a French forest.

The tower needs lots of maintenance.

Whatever you do, don't burn out the sacred spots.

Was the rock area ok for kids? 8yo? Thanks

Mitchell caverns

About how long does it take to get there from the LA area, say Glendale?

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Thank you very much for bringing us along !!! I’ve never seen this landmark!!! ✌️🩵 :) Jesse

Love you both oddity fam be home in LA Soon im with you always love the episodes cant wait for hyrule odysseys 🤘🤘🤟🫶🧡🖤😘

A very cool spot! When I lived in San Diego I used to take visitors--they were sort of intimidated by the remoteness but really impressed by the building and the view.The creatures in Boulder Park have had a fresh coat of paint since I was there last, they're looking pretty spiffy. You got it right about being like a garage sale in there, but that's what makes it so neat. Love the sound of that desert wind on top of the tower!