34. Bottle Peak: Early residents claimed the highest peak viewed while traveling east on Valley Parkway, “Looks like a bottle sittin’ on a rock!” After a disastrous fire in 1904, every puff of smoke terrorized local growers. It became a fire lookout. School children tried to decipher the mirror flashes of coded heliograph messages in the three way communications between Palomar, Cuyamaca, and Bottle Peak fire wardens. -Back to the map page-