Location: Los Angeles County, about 10 miles north of Claremont, 45 miles from Los Angeles

Maps

Auto Club: Los Angeles and Vicinity

Forest Service: Angeles National Forest

USGS Topo: Mt Baldy 7½, Mount San Antonio 7½

HPS: Route(s), waypoints and explanation of usage

Distance: 10 miles round trip on trail and cross-country

Gain: 2800'

Time: 6-7 hours round trip

Rating: Class 1, strenuous

Navigation: Difficult

Leader Rating: "I", normal conditions

DRIVING ROUTE 2

• Take the 210 freeway east to Baseline Road exit in the City of Claremont. Turn left (west) at the bottom of the off-ramp onto Baseline Road.
• Almost immediately, take the first right (north) onto Padua Ave.
• Go 1.8 miles north on Padua to the intersection with Mount Baldy Rd. Turn right (northeast).
• Take this road northeast and then north about seven miles to the USFS Mt. Baldy Vistors Center on the left in Mt. Baldy Village.
• Park in the parking lot of the Visitors Center or along Mt. Baldy Road.

Note: There is a good parking lot for ridesharing in this area. To get there, after turning west on Baseline Road, continue past Padua Avenue a short distance to Mills Avenue. Turn north on Mills, and continue to Mt. Baldy Road. The parking lot is at the northeast corner of this intersection.

HIKING ROUTE 2

• From the parking area (4260'), hike up past the church on Bear Canyon Drive. Bear Canyon Drive is about 200' south of the Visitors Center. It soon becomes the Bear Canyon Trail. Continue on this trail about 2 miles to a flat area just past a stream crossing. This is Bear Flat.
• Continue on this trail about 100' beyond the stream to a large oak tree on the left. At the left of this tree is a very faint trail leading down to a gully.
• Follow this faint trail as it goes into a small stand of trees, crosses a streambed, and starts to contour along the south slope of a ridge at about 5600' before descending and entering the west fork of Bear Canyon.
• The trail stays on the right side of the canyon, and grows increasingly faint. There is an obscure switchback at a large fallen tree, and the trail continues from about the most uphill point of the tree. At 6420' the trail comes to an old campsite and disappears.
• Continue up the canyon to the ridge at a point north of bump 6640'+. Follow a trail south along the ridge around the east side of bump 6930' into the saddle north of Lookout. Continue south up through brush to the summit.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

The Forest Service requests that the first 50' of this route off Bear Canyon Trail not be clipped. The Forest Service does not want hikers to Mt. Baldy confused by this branching route. Please note that the Bear Canyon Trail is called the "Baldy Trail" on the USGS topo.