Signs needed for travelers

When I sat down to write directions to the Poppy Reserve for the article that ran in Antelope Valley Press’ Showcase last week, I was struck with the fact that we are lacking signs.
We don’t have a Welcome to the Antelope Valley, Palmdale, nor Lancaster.
There’s one sign for Lancaster City Hall after you get off the freeway at the Avenue K exit and cross over that very busy intersection at Avenue K. If you glance quickly over to your right, you’ll see the sign for Lancaster pointing to the right as if our city hall was in the parking lot for Toys R Us.
A visitor traveling on the 14 does not see any sign for the Poppy Reserve – and we have the State’s only Poppy Reserve. The only sign you’ll see is after you get off the 14 and are traveling west on I. Then you learn it’s 11 miles to the Poppy Reserve.
And what about the aerospace museums?
No traveler would know about any of them.
Lancaster’s Walk of Honor? Nope, nothing.
Prime Desert Woodland? No.
Palmdale’s Dry Town Water Park? You know the answer.
As you travel north on the 14, of course you’ll see the exit for Edwards Air Force Base. But what about the Exotic Feline Breeding Compound or Willow Springs Raceway?
Nothing.
At least the welcome to Mojave sign tells you that it’s the home of the Voyager.
I know money is tight and there might be restrictions for signs adjacent to the freeway but sometime in the future we need to have the signs and a Visitors’ Center – perhaps in the same area as the office for the Mojave Desert State Park Office on 15th Street in Lancaster. To mitigate costs it could be a joint effort by the cities and the counties.
And it would be a sign for the times.