Where the story starts playing, on the road

The house it is about

Carlsbad: The Well, the Flowers and the Smokestack

$6

A short coastal drive through the town a well named. Six stops, from the artesian spring that borrowed a Bohemian spa's name to the power station that drank the Pacific, the flower farm that outlived every farm around it, and the ranch a movie cowboy built out of adobe.

Not yet driven end to end. Every stop is placed from its address, so one may start talking a little early or late. The narration and the sources are finished.

Stops
6
Drive
12.9 mi
Narration
6 min
Sources
32
  • Plays itself as you drive up to each stop
  • No app, no account — it runs in this browser
  • Every figure traced to a published source
  • Yours to replay, as often as you like

What you will hear

Hear stop one free· 59s

Carlsbad Village — A well, a Victorian, and the reason for both

Every number in this tour has a source.

Sale prices, dates and owners are traced to 32 published sources, listed inside the tour next to the stop they belong to. Where sources disagree, the narration says so instead of picking one.

Theme

One payment. Starts playing the moment you drive.

Carlsbad: The Well, the Flowers and the Smokestack — a self-driven audio tour of Carlsbad, California