Last week we went to SLO for a few days. The last time we spent time there was in 2013. This time I looked at Atlas Obscura to see what else we might enjoy in this cute college town.
The thing that piqued my interest the most was the Poly Canyon Experimental Structures Lab. As usual with Atlas Obscura, it was not easy to find where we were going. The road leading to parking was blocked off, so we used our phones to find an alternative path. That led us along a stream, scrambling across rocks while we could see the fire road across the way.
After a half-mile or a little more, we met up with the fire road, where we saw the first of the structures. “The site is an “outdoor experimental construction laboratory” for the university students. The structures were all built by architectural, engineering, and design students over the last several decades. They range from sculptures to semi-houses, but most of the structures fall somewhere in between.”
We only had 45 minutes on our parking meter, but I could have stayed another hour looking at everything. On the way back we took the fire road for most of it, found a stream crossing and took the path back to the car.
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