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Narrated audio tours that play themselves as you drive or walk. The history beneath the places you pass.

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Stories of the past that play themselves as you drive, walk, or ride.

Beneath the path or roadway are layered the stories of our past, both recent and some not so recent at all…

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Open road at sunset
GPS Active
Wigwam Village No. 2

Route 66 Roadside Americana

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Stories start on their own

Each story begins the moment you arrive, so your phone stays right where it belongs, in your pocket

Written by historians

Researched and narrated by real historians and locals who know the place.

Works fully offline

Download before you leave. Canyons and dead zones don't interrupt the story.

Buy once, keep it

A tour is a one-time purchase, yours to replay on every trip. There are Free tours included.

How it works

Pick a tour. Start moving. Listen.

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Pick a tour

Browse drives and walks by region. Download the one you want before you leave.

2

Drive or walk the route

Follow the route at your own pace. There's nothing to tap once you're moving.

3

Listen as you arrive

Each story begins the moment you arrive, whether you're standing at a scenic overlook or a corner most people never notice.

Start here

The layers of the cake are baked and ready for you to enjoy.

No matter your mode of journey, be it on foot, rolling rubber or from miles in the sky above, we have the stories of yesteryear on an audio dish.

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From real tours

The places you'll hear about.

Real stops from published tours. Every web page is a preview — the full narration plays on location in the app.

Plan your first trip

Pick your first tour.

Browse tours on the web today. When the app launches, every story will be ready to play on the road.

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Altadena Golf Course - Welcome!
Walking tourFree

Altadena Golf Course - Welcome!

This is HistoryCake, the Altadena Golf Course tour.

12 storiesstories
2.1 mi
1h 15m
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HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview
Driving tourFree

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview

Highway 395 runs north south through the eastern side of California above the Cajon Pass. Highway 14 runs from the San Fernando Pass through Mojave to join the 395 just west of RidgeCrest. Today we will journey through the past of the land around you and the hooves and footprints of those before you. Welcome to HistoryCake!

37 storiesstories
222.4 mi
9h 16m
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Sphinx Ranch Walking Tour
Walking tourFree

Sphinx Ranch Walking Tour

Hello and welcome to HistoryCake, The Sphinx Ranch walking tour.  Let's begin where a traveller of yesteryear would, down at the meeting of Pepper and New York Drive and take a nice walk through the vines and fruit orchards of the William Allen family "Sphinx Ranch" of the late 1880's as you breathe the clean mountain air they came here for.

17 storiesstories
5.3 mi
2h 32m
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Newhall and Placerita Canyon

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview

Newhall and Placerita Canyon

Newhall and Placerita Canyon

Santa Susana and San Gabriel mountains merge - 5 & 210

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview

Santa Susana and San Gabriel mountains merge - 5 & 210

The meeting of two different and distinct mountain ranges and their geologic collision.

Cascades

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview

Cascades

Where water from the owens valley meets the sunshine of the san fernando valley north of the san fernando mission.

Van Norman Dam

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview

Van Norman Dam

The Van Norman dam was built in 1913 to create a reservoir higher than the san fernando valley floor. It was the then endpoint for the owens valley aqueduct.

Basin and Ranges Geology

HistoryCake Driving Tour - Highway 14 and the 395 - Welcome and Overview

Basin and Ranges Geology

As we transition between the San Gabriel range and the Mojave basin, we are at a good point to consider the type of land formation and deformation creating the topography around us.