Printable Peak Guide

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Location: Santa Barbara County, about 13 miles north of Summerland, 120 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	Hildreth Peak 7½, Old Man Mountain 7½
Official HPS Maps	TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO!
	Viewable PDF file - Approximately 6.5 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)

Take US 101 to Santa Barbara. Exit at Salinas Street.
Go 0.75 mile to a traffic circle at Sycamore Canyon Road (SR 144). Turn right.
Go 1.1 miles to Stanwood Drive (SR 192). Turn left.
Go 1.1 miles to El Cielito Road. Turn right.
In 0.3 mile, 4-way stop. Drive straight on El Cielito.
Go 0.2 mile to Gibraltar Road. Turn right.
Go 6.3 miles to Camino Cielo (unsigned). Turn right.
Go 6.7 miles to Romero Saddle.
Continue on this road, staying on the main road at any forks, as it goes down along the north side of the ridge, 5.3 miles to Juncal Campground. Immediately after crossing a shallow stream, turn left (northwest) at a fork.
Go 3 miles to the Pendola Guard Station. Turn right.
Go 2.7 miles to Caliente Hot Spring (Agua Caliente Spring). Park here.

From the parking area (1950'), hike up the trail on the left side of the stream. It crosses the stream in about 0.25 mile and comes back along the other side and goes up past a concrete dam.
Follow the trail up Agua Caliente Canyon, crossing a stream a number of times. Do not go up Diablo Canyon by mistake! After crossing the main stream 10 times, there will be a small campsite on the left side with a picnic table.
After crossing the main stream 4 more times, and just before the 5th, leave the trail to the left. Go northwest up the ridge that starts there, following an old roadbed and then use trails, to the prominently visible bump 3511'.
Continue down the ridge on use trails, staying on the southwest side, over a brushy plateau at 3480'. Meet a jeep road in the shallow saddle at 3350' just west of bump 3511'.
Turn right on this undulating road and follow it to where it comes out on the ridge just past (east) of the peak (4950').
Turn left off the road here (there may be a duck) and go west along the north side of the ridge and up over some rocks to the summit.