In 1910 this was Southern California Edison’s Camp 8, the end of the road, and from this uppermost camp a rough wagon track ran one and one half miles up the river to the intake constructed for Kern River No. 3 Power Plant. In 1922 Earl and Lucille Pascoe started Pascoe’s Pack Station; by 1927 it was a year-round home and operation, and by 1934 it included the Road’s End store, lodge, and guest cottages. Earl expanded the business to 150 head of horses and mules and 12 or 13 packers and guides in peak season. In 1936 a 100-man Conservation Corps Camp was brought in by the U.S. Forest Service to extend the road north for construction of the town of Johnsondale, and when a post office was established in 1937 Pascoe’s officially became Road’s End. The Pascoes retired in 1952, after which Skeets and Mildred Byers operated the store until Al and Fran Keegan purchased the resort in 1970 and added a restaurant in 1973; the last owners of the store and cottages were Mike and Marcia Burford in 1996. Forest Service Fire Patrolman John T. “Jack” Moore was a permanent fixture from 1944 to 1972, and he and his wife Loreen lived and worked in the guard station during an era when a ranger’s work, private life, home, and office melded into one. Thousands of forest visitors and native people benefited from his knowledge of the area and remembered him as a caregiver, rescuer, firefighter, and friend. Road’s End remained a popular stop for visitors until July 2002, when most of its buildings were lost in the human-caused McNally fire.