Etiwanda

Etiwanda was a Victorian-era colony town before it was a neighborhood — George Chaffey laid it out in the 1880s with some of the first electric streetlights in the West — and it joined the 1977 merger as the city's eastern third. The old settlement's bones survive: the Chaffey-Garcia House, stone curbs, and street names that remember homesteads.

Today it's the launch pad for the city's best outdoor day. The North Etiwanda Preserve trailhead sits at the top of Etiwanda Avenue, the Pacific Electric Trail crosses through with its Kenyon Way parking, and the newer housing runs right up against chaparral. Expect wind — this is the mouth of the Cajon Pass weather, and the eucalyptus windrows were planted for a reason.