** Use at Your Own Risk **
25A |
Allen Peak |
5795' |
Location: San Bernardino County, about 5 miles northeast of Yucaipa, 76 miles from Los Angeles
Maps
- Auto Club: Los Angeles and Vicinity, San Bernardino Mountain Area
- Forest Service: San Bernardino National Forest
- USGS Topo: Forest Falls 7½, Yucaipa 7½
- HPS: Route(s), waypoints and explanation of usage
ROUTE 1- Aqueduct Scramble
(USFS Adventure Pass required)- Distance: 4 miles round trip on road and steep cross-country
- Gain: 2200'
- Time: 5-6 hours round trip
- Rating: Class 2, moderately strenuous
- Navigation: Moderate
Original: David Eisenberg, May 1990
DRIVING ROUTE 1
- Take I-10 east past San Bernardino to the Orange Street exit (SR 38).
- Go one block east, then go north (left) 0.5 mile to Lugonia Avenue. Turn right on SR 38 (east).
- Go about 8 miles to the Mill Creek Ranger Station.
- Continue on SR 38 another 2.5 miles to Thurman Flats Picnic Area on the right. Park where convenient.
HIKING ROUTE 1
- From the picnic area (3500'), follow the Mill Creek streambed east for one mile, looking for a concrete slab jutting jutting from south creek bank and a gully coming to the creek bed at the hillside on your right (south). A track leads up to a ledge along some pipes. Scramble up to the ledge.
- Go west on a trail about 100' passing the concrete slab. Here the trail enters a relatively open steep gully which goes south.
- Ascend this gully. Take the right branch at major forks. Continue up to a firebreak at 4640'. (Mark your position carefully when exiting the gully, so you find it on the way back.)
- Go up the firebreak to the aqueduct trail.
- Go right (southwest) on this trail to where it intersects a road on the ridge.
- Turn left on this road and follow it east to near its high point at the base of Allen Peak.
- Turn right (south) and go up a use trail to the summit.
ROUTE 2 - Wildlife Preserve Road
(USFS Adventure Pass required)- Distance: 7.5 miles round trip on road and cross-country
- Gain: 1300'
- Time: 3-4 hours round trip
- Rating: Class 2, moderate
- Navigation: Easy
DRIVING ROUTE 2
- Take I-10 east past San Bernardino to the Orange Street exit (SR 38).
- Go one block east, then go north (left) 0.5 mile to Lugonia Avenue. Turn right on SR 38 (east).
- Go about 8 miles to the Mill Creek Ranger Station.
- Continue on SR 38 another 6.2 miles to Valley of the Falls Road junction (Forest Falls Road). Park here.
HIKING ROUTE 2
- From the parking area (4460'), cross Mill Creek to the south on 1S08. Hike up 1S08 through privately owned land 2.6 miles to 1S09 (Yucaipa Ridge Truck Trail) at the Allen-Birch saddle.
- Turn right (west) and hike along 1S09 about 1/4 mile to where the north trending ridge of Allen Peak crosses the road.
- Turn left (south) and hike up the north ridge of Allen Peak to the summit.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
Route 2 crosses a wildlife preserve and permission must be obtained well advance of the day of the hike. Contact the HPS Outings Chair to make arrangements to obtain permission cross the property.
Hiking along Yucaipa Ridge from Birch Mountain to Allen Peak without permission is not recommended! This route also crosses private property. For information on obtaining permission to cross this property, please contact the Hundred Peaks Section Outings Chair.
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Hundred Peaks Section, Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club
Published 11-August-2008
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