215 Canebrake Rd, Julian, CA 92036

This true desert getaway property is located in the Canebreak area of Julian and is near Agua Caliente Hot Springs and Airport. Wonderful desert views from all angles. This well built house is 2BR 1BA with a woodstove and a nice screened in porch. Two storage outbuildings and two carports. In Canebreak water district. Come enjoy the peace and quiet. Good neighbors help each other in this tiny desert community in remote San Diego County. Pilots can fly into nearby Agua Caliente airport. [Supplement]: Midway between Ocotillo and Shelter Valley on S-2 is Canebrake, named for the bamboo-like reed that grows around a nearby well. About 20 homes on this 640-acre parcel are occupied year-round, with more people visiting on the weekends. Canebrake was once a federal homestead parcel, reserved for sailors and soldiers returning from World War II. Until the early 1980s, it survived without telephones or mail delivery. "When we first came out here it was two tracks in the sand, no highway, " said Eileen Brennan, who has lived in Canebrake off and on since the 1950s. "It's just like living in heaven. There's quail and bunny rabbits here every morning for you to feed. 'Course, we got coyotes, too. " In the early '50s, Brennan's son delighted in the ghost stories told by a woman called Old Mary who sold milk and bread from a 4-by-8-foot shack near the Agua Caliente Hot Springs. "There's nothing out here. It's just a group of people that love the desert and love to live out here. It's an entirely different way of life. " S-2 roughly follows some of Juan Bautista De Anza's 1775 trek through the region and U. S. Army Gen. Stephen W. Kearny's 1846 journey to San Pasqual near Escondido, where his Army of the West was defeated during the Mexican-American War. Later, that course through the desert delivered gold-seekers to the hills of Julian and brought mail from the East. In 1851, it was part of Butterfield Stage Route, on which coaches carried passengers from Missouri to San Francisco. In 1953, residents pressed the Board of Supervisors for road improvements, which the county finally completed seven years later. With the paving came a granting of residents' request to change the road's name from Imperial Highway to the Great Southern Overland Stage Route of 1849.