Dan's Hiking Pages: Hikes in the San Gabriels and Beyond
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Access Note:
The record rainfall of Winter 2004/2005 has damaged many roads and trails throughout the San Gabriels—such as Hwy 39 to Crystal Lake and portions of Hwy 2—making some of the hikes listed below inaccessible. Check with the forest service before heading out for a hike. See news stories.
Hike List

There are lots of excellent trail guides on the market. And I've gleaned much from them. The list below is my contribution to the literature for hiking in the San Gabriels and the Angeles National Forest. My desire is to help you have a great hiking experience in these mountains. In many cases, I offer my take on hikes that are covered by other authors, and in some cases, I present trail descriptions that are hard to find or non-existent in other works. I present two kinds of hike write-ups:

Hike Description - This is a complete trail guide designed to give you all the information you need to successfully hike the trail. In many cases, my write-ups are more accurate and up-to-date than the descriptions you find in popular books.

ReportHike Report - This is a narrative of my hike experience on that trail. Usually these are hikes that are well written up in the literature and/or on the web, thus you'll likely need to obtain a good hike description for the necessary details to do the hike.

In the chart below, the hike numbers in the left column are from John Robinson's Trails of the Angeles: 100 Hikes in the San Gabriels, which is my primary hike guidebook for my local mountains. See my Books page for reviews and information about the top trail guides for the San Gabriels.

If you have any suggestions, corrections, updates, or reports, I'd love to hear from you. Contact Dan. Happy hiking!



# Hike Location Miles Gain Per mi
  Waterfalls Waterfalls of the San Gabriels        
15 Arroyo Seco to Oakwilde Altadena / ANF 10.0 900' 90'
19 Dawn Mine via Sunset Ridge and Millard Canyon Altadena / ANF 5.0 1200' 480'
20 Millard Canyon Falls Altadena / ANF 1.4 150' 71'
(21) Tom Sloan Saddle via Sunset Ridge and Millard Canyon Altadena / ANF 7.2 2200' 611'
24 Echo Mountain (3207') via Sam Merrill Trail Altadena / ANF 5.0 1400 560
25 Rubio Canyon Altadena / ANF 1.5 380  
26 Henninger Flats (2550') via Old Mt. Wilson Toll Road / Eaton Canyon Altadena / ANF 5.4 1360 504
  Eaton Canyon Falls via Eaton Canyon Nature Area / Eaton Canyon Altadena / ANF 3.0 400 266
30/32 San Gabriel Peak (6161') with Mt. Disappointment, Mt. Markham, and Mt. Lowe via Eaton Saddle Mt. Wilson / ANF 7.4 1970 532
(34) Bailey Canyon Falls Sierra Madre / ANF 1.2 350 583
34/(39) Jones Peak (3375') via Bailey Canyon and/or Little Santa Anita Canyon Sierra Madre / ANF 6.6 2275 689
39 Orchard Camp (2960') via the Mt. Wilson Trail / Little Santa Anita Canyon Sierra Madre / ANF 7.0 1990 568
41 Sturtevant Falls Chantry Flat / ANF 3.7 700 378
41-44 Hoegees Camp Loop Hike Chantry Flat / ANF 5.0 1080 432
  Hermit Falls, First Water Trail Chantry Flat / ANF 2.8 680 514
  Monrovia Canyon Falls, Bill Cull Trail Monrovia / ANF 3.4 720 424
  Monrovia Peak (5409') with Rankin and Clamshell Peaks Monrovia / ANF 6.6 1977 568
  Mt. Bliss (3720') via Van Tassel Canyon
Azusa / ANF 8.5 2280 667
49 Van Tassel Ridge via Fish Canyon trailhead Azusa / ANF 3.8 1400 737
49 Fish Canyon Falls Azusa / ANF 6.0 900 300
  Garcia Trail to Azusa Peak (2081') Azusa / ANF 3.0 1246 886
  Summit 2843 via Silver Fish Road (2N28) Morris Reservoir / ANF 4.0 1300 771
58 Mt. Hillyer (6162') via Horse Flats Chilao area / ANF 4.6 702 305
  Rincon Red Box Road to Summit 2908' NEW 5-20-07 Hwy 39 / ANF 7.0 1350 386
71 Glen Canyon Falls via West Fork San Gabriel River Hwy 39 / ANF 12.6
0.6
627 95
76 Big Cienega Trail to Islip Ridge Crystal Lake / ANF 3.8 1020 536
76 Windy Gap Trail to Windy Gap Crystal Lake / ANF 5.0 1756 703
76/77 Mount Islip (8250') via Hwy 2 and Windy Gap Crystal Lake / ANF 3 1000 665
81 Mount Baden-Powell (9399') Vincent Gap / ANF 8.0 2803 700
  Shoemaker Canyon Road, "The Road to Nowhere" East Fork San Gabriel River / ANF 5.0 800 320
84 The Bridge to Nowhere and the Narrows via Heaton Flat Ranger Station East Fork San Gabriel River / ANF 10.0 1000 200
(86) Heaton Flat Trail via Heaton Flat Ranger Station NEW 4-22-07 East Fork San Gabriel River / ANF 6.2
8.8
2000
3654
645
706
  Mystic Canyon Trail & Upper Monroe Rd to Summits 2760 & 3397 Big Dalton Canyon - Glendora / ANF 6.0 1180 526
  Potato Mountain (3422') via Evey Canyon Road San Anontio Canyon / ANF 5.0 1200 480
  Stoddard Peak (4624') via Stoddard-Barrett Road San Anontio Canyon / ANF 6.0 1100 366
91-94 Introducing Mt. Baldy Mt. Baldy / ANF, SBNF      
92 Bear Canyon Trail (Old Mt. Baldy Trail) to Bear Flat and up Baldy's South Ridge (7755') Mt. Baldy / ANF 7.5 3500 933
91/93 Mt. Baldy (Mt. San Antonio) (10,064') via Manker Flats - Devils Backbone Trail / Ski Hut Trail Mt. Baldy / ANF 6.4
8.4
2264'
3900'
707
928
93 Baldy's South Ridge (9000') via the Ski Hut Trail - Hike Report (5-17-03) Mt. Baldy / ANF 6.5 2840 873
(93) San Antonio Falls Mt. Baldy / ANF 1.2 250 415
95 Thunder Mt. (8587') / Telegraph Pk. (8985') via Manker Flats and Baldy Notch Mt. Baldy / ANF, SBNF 9.0 3525 783
96/95 Timber Mountain (8303') via Icehouse Canyon Mt. Baldy / ANF, SBNF 9.0 3403 756
96 Icehouse Saddle (7555') via Icehouse Canyon Mt. Baldy / ANF, SBNF 7.0 2655 758
98 Cucamonga Peak (8859') via Icehouse Canyon Mt. Baldy / ANF, SBNF 12.0 4300 716
...and Beyond
  Griffith Observatory (1131') via Trail 11 (the east approach) NEW 9-16-07 Griffith Park /
Los Angeles
1.5 426 561
  Hawaii Dan's Hawaiian Adventures
Hikes in O'ahu
NEW 1-19-07
       


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