Searching for the Lost Desert View Tower Cafe on Abandoned Highway 80

The Desert View Tower, which sits on the border of San Diego and Imperial Counties, has been an icon in the California desert for a century. Created in the early 1920s by real estate developer Bert Vaughn (who owned Jacumba Hot Springs), the tower remains a popular attraction on Interstate 8. However, decades ago it was Highway 80 that passed by the Tower, and one of the purposes of the tower was to get motorists to stop and eat at the cafe located there.

Eventually Interstate 8 was built and the old highway was torn up. The cafe moved to the north before eventually closing. When the freeway was built, it cut through the mountain, destroying a lot of the property in between where the cafe was and where the Desert View Tower still stands.

While the cafe is long gone, the site remains, hidden from the Interstate on an island between the eastbound and westbound freeway, not easily accessed. Guarded by boulders, cactus, and bushes covered in thorns, we managed to reach the site and explored a long abandoned portion of Highway 80 and the site where the long lost Desert View Tower Cafe once stood.

Check out our full video on the Desert View Tower and Boulder Park here: https://youtu.be/fWMCZDkGH0k

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