CA-1 Seven Stairs drinking fountain / New Deal(#1249)

Seven Stairs drinking fountain / picnic area, a place I’d never noticed when driving the route – it was at a point on the road where people wouldn’t notice it, so it was unused and pleasant. There’s a stone wall (and seven stairs), and what appeared to be a small spring flowing in the back of the area. I had a suspicion the area had been built during the New Deal and it turns out it was. It’s one of five drinking fountains built by the Civilian Conservation Corp in the 1930’s, during the construction of the highway.

Source: mycoastalcalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/08/big-sur-drinking-fountains-snippet-of.html