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** Use at Your Own Risk **
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Wilshire Mountain |
8832'
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Location: San Bernardino County, about 8.5 miles northeast of Yucaipa, 81 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 |
| Official HPS Maps | TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO! |
| Viewable JPG file - Approximately 1.1 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) | |
| All of Yucaipa Ridge: 3.6 meg JPG, TPO file, GPX file, KML file, CalTopo. |
Nearby Peaks: Birch Mountain, Cedar Mountain, Wilshire Peak, Little San Gorgonio Peak
ROUTE 1
Yucaipa Ridge Traverse (5 peaks) from east to westFrom Little San Gorgonio Peak
(USFS Adventure Pass may be required)
- Distance: 0.8 mile one way on road and cross-country
- Gain: 140'
- Time: 1 hour one way
- Rating: Class 1, very strenuous when combined with other peaks in the area
- Navigation: Easy
Original: Warren E. von Pertz
DRIVING ROUTE 1
- See the driving instructions for Little San Gorgonio Peak. This route assumes that you are hiking each peak along this section of Yucaipa Ridge (5 peaks).
HIKING ROUTE 1
- From Little San Gorgonio Peak, hike west along the ridge to a radio tower shown on the USGS topo map.
- Continue west on a dirt road down into a saddle.
- Continue west on the road until the road makes a sharp turn to the left.
- Leave the road to the right and hike north up to the peak. This is a wide wooded area. The peak is not named on the topo but is shown as 8832'.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
The route continues west down Yucaipa Ridge past Birch Mountain to the Allen-Birch saddle. This route crosses private property. You must obtain permission several days in advance to use this exit route.
The USGS topo shows a trail starting at Pilgrim Pines Camp in Oak Glen and going up to a point near Cedar Mountain. This trail crosses private property and must be used only with permission. Call Pilgrim Pines at (562) 335-7697 for permission.
NOTES
This peak and the four nearby peaks are normally done together as a car shuttle trip. It is possible to descend the ridge from the saddle just east of Birch Mountain to the town of Forest Falls. See the Birch Mountain guide for additional information.
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