Printable Peak Guide

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Location: San Diego County, about 19 miles southeast of Julian, 167 miles from Los Angeles, 55 miles from San Diego

Auto Club	San Diego County
Forest Service	Cleveland National Forest
USGS Topo	Mount Laguna 7½
Official HPS Maps	TPO file - Save to your computer then open with National Geographic TOPO!
	Viewable JPG file - Approximately 700K
	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)

(I-8 and San Diego approach)

Take I-8 east from San Diego to the Sunrise Highway (S1), about 40 miles from the junction of I-8 and I-805.
Go left (north) on S1 at the top of the off-ramp about 4 miles to Kitchen Creek Road (paved) on the right, milepost 20.7. Turn right.
Continue another 1.5 miles to a gated dirt road on the right. Park in the wide area to the left.

From the parking area (5560'), pass the gate and hike along a badly eroded dirt road keeping left at a fork to where you find a private property sign just short of a junction with Kitchen Creek Road.
Leave the road on the left side and hike cross-country a short distance until you meet Kitchen Creek Road where it exits the private property. You are skirting around the left side of the private property.
Turn left on Kitchen Creek Road and follow it a short distance to a gate which is padlocked and posted Private Property - No Trespassing. The road is on USFS property for the next 0.2 miles until the final few hundred feet before turning off into the ascent gully. The private property can be avoided, if you desire, by cutting off the final portion of the road to connect with the use trail in the wash. All of the ascent trail from then on is on public land.
Continue on or alongside the road to a clipped use trail that is often difficult to find for another 0.1 mile to a wash on the right which comes down on the east side of the peak. This wash is just north of the prominent broad ridge coming down from the summit.
Turn into this wash and follow a use trail up the wash. (Continuing on the road at this point would enter private property.) Soon this clipped use trail leaves the wash and winds its way up the slope to the summit. Use the clipped use trail to avoid the brush. All of the ascent trail is on public land (USFS property).