Printable Peak Guide

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Location: Santa Barbara County, about 21 miles north-northwest of Ojai, 170 miles from Los Angeles

Auto Club	Santa Barbara County
Forest Service	Los Padres National Forest: Mt Pinos, Ojai and Santa Barbara Ranger Districts
USGS Topos	Cuyama Peak 7½, Rancho Nuevo Creek 7½
Official HPS Maps	TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO!
	Viewable JPG file - Approximately 3.4 megs
	GPX file or Google Earth KML file to download to GPS units and other map software (How to use GPX and KML files)
	Routes as shown on CalTopo using the above files (How to use CalTopo)

(USFS Adventure Pass may be required)

Drive north on I-5 past the Grapevine to the SR 166 off-ramp. Turn left (west).
Head west 36.5 miles, passing through Maricopa, to the junction with SR 33 south. (There is a junction with SR 33 north in Maricopa that you will pass in Maricopa.) Turn left (south).
Go 2.7 miles to Foothill Road on the right. This intersection may also be reached by traveling north from Ojai or from Lockwood Valley. Set odometer here, and turn right (west) onto Foothill Road.
Go 2.1 miles, then turn left onto Santa Barbara Canyon Road (9N11).
At 5.0 miles, turn right at an intersection just past a ranch house.
At 9.3 miles, fork with Santa Barbara Ranch visible ahead. Go right and cross a creek. The pavement ends.
At 12.5 miles, turn left at Dry Canyon Road.
At 18.0 miles an obscure gated road/trail on the right. Park here.

From the parking area (4600'), hike down the right fork of the road past the barrier about 1 1/4 miles to Upper Tinta Campground (4500').
The Upper Tinta Campground is not shown on the Topo map and is no longer maintained. The site is reached by a faint use trail that turns south from the main trail into a grove of trees, along the creekbed.
From here, hike southwest up a firebreak along the low ridge to the left (east) of the campground. (Don't start up the inviting firebreak on the right!)
Continue up the firebreak across the bump at 5300' (visible from the campground) and up to the main (east-west) ridge at 5600'+.
Turn right (west) and go about 500 feet to the ridge running south. From here, Lizard Head is visible as the 6th bump along this ridge.
Follow the firebreak along this ridge, going first south, then southeast.
At the bump just southeast of elevation 5562', there is is a wide, bare spot (former heliport). The firebreak ends here.
Continue along the ridge another mile to the summit, which is a large sloping rock outcrop.