In 1910, Roads End was Camp 8, the end of the road, and from this uppermost camp a rough wagon track extended one and one half miles up the river to the intake built by Southern California Edison Company for Kern River No. 3 Power Plant. In 1922, Earl and Lucille Pascoe started Pascoe’s Pack Station, which became a year round operation by 1927 and by 1934 included the Roads End Store, a lodge, and guest cottages. Earl expanded the packing business to 150 horses and mules and 12 or 13 packers and guides in peak season. In 1936, the U. S. Forest Service brought in a 100 man Conservation Corps camp to extend the road north and build the historic town of Johnsondale. The Pascoes retired in 1952 and sold the business to Mildred and Skeets Byers, and in 1973 new owners Al and Frank Keegan added a restaurant. The last owners to operate the store and cottages were Mike and Marcia Burford. From 1944 to 1972, Forest Service Fire Patrolman John T. “Jack” Moore was a permanent presence at Roads End, where he and his wife, Loreen, lived and worked in the Guard Station during an era when rangers’ work, private lives, home, and office blended together. Thousands of forest visitors and local residents benefited from his knowledge of the area and remembered him as a caregiver, rescuer, firefighter, and friend. Roads End Resort remained a popular stop for visitors until July 2002, when most of its buildings were lost in the human-caused McNally fire.