Printable Peak Guide

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Location: Santa Barbara County, about 20 miles north of Santa Barbara, 145 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	Madulce Peak 7½, Big Pine Mountain 7½, Fox Mountain 7½, Salisbury Potrero 7½
Official HPS Maps	TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO!
	Viewable PDF file - Approximately 9 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. This junction may be reached by a slower route via SR 33 north from Ojai. (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. Turn right (west).
Go 2.1 miles, crossing the Cuyama River, to the Santa Barbara Canyon Road (9N11) on the left. Turn left, note your odometer, and go as follows:
At 3.1 miles, just past a ranch house, junction with a dirt road on the left and a paved road on the right with a sign "Santa Barbara Canyon Road". Turn right.
At 7.5 miles, fork with Santa Barbara Ranch visible ahead. Go right and cross a creek. The pavement ends.
At 9.5 miles, a cattle guard and gate.
At 10.0 miles, a hard to see dirt road on right. This is the turnoff for Fox Mountain #1. Keep straight.
At 10.8 miles, fork with Dry Canyon Road on the left. This is the turnoff for Lizard Head and Cuyama Peak (LO). Keep straight.
At 12.6 miles, a locked gate. Park here.

From the parking area (3440'), hike through the small gate and continue up the road. At 4 miles there are the posts of a second gate; off the road to the right is a flat area suitable for camping.
Continue up the road, keeping left at a fork with Sierra Madre Road about 0.5 mile farther, and go about 5 miles farther to Chokecherry Spring (5500'), marked by a water trough and a large water tank. This is the turnoff for Samon Peak.
Continue south up the road about 1.7 miles (700' gain) to a saddle where the road starts downhill.
About 30 yards past the saddle, the trail that goes to Madulce Peak starts off to the left, visible from the saddle. Continuing straight ahead on the road leads to Big Pine Mountain and West Big Pine.
Turn left on the trail and follow it for 1 mile as it crosses over a ridge and then goes along its east side to a trail fork, with a sign on the right reading "Madulce Peak 2". The left fork goes 2 miles down to Madulce Guard Station.
Take the right fork, following this realigned trail (not shown on the topo map) that begins just northeast of bump 6381', trends downward to a major ridge north of Madulce, and then doubles back steeply uphill with 23 switchbacks to meet the old trail alignment at the main ridgeline near bump 6412'.
After meeting the main ridgeline, turn south along the ridge to the summit, which is marked by the foundations of a former lookout. The new trail alignment to the summit is 1 mile longer than the former trail.