** Use at Your Own Risk **
23E |
Meeks Mountain |
6277' |
Location: San Bernardino County, about 40 miles northeast of San Bernardino, 142 miles from Los Angeles
Maps
- Auto Club: Los Angeles and Vicinity
- USGS Topo: Bighorn Canyon 7½, Rattlesnake Canyon 7½
- HPS: Route(s), waypoints and explanation of usage (Older version)
Nearby Peaks: Bighorn Mountains
ROUTE 1
- Distance: 4 miles round trip on road and cross-country
- Gain: 1000'
- Time: 2-3 hours round trip
- Rating: Class 1, easy
- Navigation: Easy
Original: John Backus, January 1974
DRIVING ROUTE 1
- Take I-10 east through Banning to SR 62.
- Go north and east on SR 62 to SR 247 in Yucca Valley. Go left (north).
- Drive 11.5 miles to the New Dixie Mine Road. Turn left. Note your odometer and go as follows:
- At 8.0 miles, fork. Go either way as the roads rejoin after 1/4 mile.
- At 8.6 miles, fork. Go straight.
- At 9.2 miles, fork. Park here.
HIKING ROUTE 1
- From the parking area (5320'), hike southwest up the road about 500' to a fork.
- Go right at this fork and hike about 1/2 mile, going through a junction to the end of the road at a burned out cabin site.
- Continue up the jeep road southwest towards the peak. The peak is in view as a rounded summit with a smaller one to its left (south).
- Leave the road wherever convenient and hike directly up to the summit.
NOTE
Meeks Mountain and the land surrounding it is private property and the owners request that their privacy be respected by using only the existing published route coming in from the North side and to please not enter or exit from the South, West, or East sides.
History of Summit Signature
Climbing Archives
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Hundred Peaks Section, Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club
Published 18-Decmeber-2005
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