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We would like to provide the residents of  Wrightwood  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Wrightwood Home page. The Wrightwood Home page provides as much information as possible on Wrightwood. Knowing Wrightwood’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wrightwood’s Home page, you will also find Wrightwood’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Wrightwood has a population of 4362. 52.7% of Wrightwood’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.3 are female. 71.3% of Wrightwood is married and 78.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $345,051, and the average rent is $1,132. Household median income in Wrightwood is $62,842, and the individual median income is $33,542. Wrightwood’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.6%), Hispanic(17.4%), Asian(4.3%), Other(2.3%), Multiple(2.1%), Black(0.6%), Pacific(0.2%).


Located in a pine-covered valley in the San Gabriel Mountains, the Wrightwood area was first developed as cattle ranches in the 19th century by Nathan and Truman Swarthout. Later, the main ranch, owned by Sumner Wright, was broken up into residential and commercial lots, and by the 1920s a community had taken root.


Early ski enthusiasts discovered the north-facing slopes of the San Gabriels above the Swarthout Valley. Until 1937, the ski area, originally known as Big Pines, was part of a Los Angeles County park. After WWII, Big Pines opened their 1946–47 ski season with a new chairlift and the Sepp Benedikter Ski School (according to their ad in the February 1947 issue of Western Skiing magazine).


Highways were built connecting to the major routes in the Cajon Pass, making Wrightwood accessible without serious mountain driving. The former vacation community is now home to over 4,000 full-time residents. Serrano High School in the neighboring community of Phelan opened in 1982; it also serves Wrightwood and the neighboring community of Piñon Hills. In August 2016, part of Wrightwood's population was evacuated as part of mandatory evacuations of over 82,000 people in San Bernardino County due to the Blue Cut Fire.


In September 2020, the Bobcat Fire caused evacuation warnings for the Wrightwood area as it raged across the San Gabriel Mountains.


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