"A California Original" is how we former Brits rate Zorthian Ranch. Go with a spirit of adventure and you like us, will thoroughly enjoy this bohemian spot set on a 30 acre plateau in the San Gabriel mountains.
We loved our eclectic studio with gingerbread men cutouts on the bathroom ceiling and an open-to-the-sky culvert pipe as a shower (lots of hot water). The comfortable bed faced the kitchen while we enjoyed an expansive view of the property; old cars, buses and trucks dotted the landscape out towards the beehives atop the rise. All under the watch of the towering San Gabriel Mountains.
If you are a "neatnic" this is not the place for you: piles of concrete blocks, timbers, car tire rims--most anything that may prove useful for building or creating artwork is stacked around the place. We loved wandering around looking at new/old/crumbling artwork, admiring views and marveling at the ingenuity of how things have been repurposed. The grandchildren loved the unheated saltwater pool, the goats, pigs, rabbits and chickens. A friendly place to stay just a 20 minute walk from our sons home in Altadena.