Printable Peak Guide

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Location: Riverside County, about 12 miles southeast of Idyllwild, 122 miles from Los Angeles

Auto Club	Riverside County, San Jacinto Mountain Area
Forest Service	San Bernardino National Forest
USGS Topo	Butterfly Peak 7½
Official HPS Maps	TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO!
	Viewable JPG file - Approximately 925K
	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 SR 60 east to I-215.
Go south on I-215 to the Ramona Expressway. Turn left (east).
Go east and then southeast on the Ramona Expressway until it ends at SR 74. Turn left (east).
Go east on SR 74 to Mountain Center.
Continue east on SR 74 for 12.5 miles to the intersection with SR 371 on the right.
Continue east on SR 74 about 1.0 mile to the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) on the left. Park here.

From the trailhead (4950'), hike north on the PCT for about 5 miles to where it crosses a dirt road.
Continue north on the PCT another mile to a trail junction just before a gate across the trail.
Turn right at this junction and hike southeast along this trail past the remains of another gate for about 1.0 mile through two saddles to a duck on the left where a faint use trail goes up through the brush (UTM 413190).
Hike up this use trail to the ridge.
Turn right and hike up over a false summit and then on to the peak.