History | Banning-Beaumont

Cities and Towns located in the San Gorgonio pass: Banning, Beaumont, Cabazon, Cherry Valley, Morongo Reservation, and White Water.

About our area: The San Gorgonio Pass is located in Southern California. It is the major east-west corridor that is used to access Southern California and is located between Mt. San Gorgonio and Mt San Jacinto. The Pass is also of geological significance, the infamous San Andreas fault is found at the lower northern slope.

Interstate 10 and highway 60 merge at Beaumont and are the primary automobile traffic corridors through the pass. Of course the Southern Pacific, now the Union Pacific, continue to use this long established route (Sunset Route/Colton to Yuma District) to move their traffic from Los Angles to places east.

Source:  San Gorgonio Historical Society