California hiking trails - Bear Creek Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County

   
  Backcountry backpacking here in California is the tremendous thing to do. Backcountry hiking trails for backcountry trekking, and backpacking can be found all over California, and Bear Creek Trail in Los Angeles County is one of them. Gotta get out of the urban center man, and Bear Creek Trail in Los Angeles County, California is a really glorious site to spend some time. Hiking here in the San Gabriel Mountains is a very glorious way to see these peaks. Bear Creek Trail has two trailheads, so if you can get a ride from someone, you can trek it just
    one way. It's a long tour from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana to Bear Creek Trail, but hiking it is glorious joy any time. Now, this is roughly a 2.5-day backcountry walk, so make sure you've got all your overnight gear packed. This is a long great outdoors trail, so don't forget
to pack enough supplies. And keep in mind that there could be temporary safety restrictions in place. This is one of many backcountry trails in the surrounding vicinity. It is very waterless here at Bear Creek Trail regularly; all through the month of February you get the most rain around here, and July is the month with the least moisture. Each backcountry trail in California is well worth a walk. This wilderness hiking trail is a wilderness hiking trail of glorious length with an average amount of climbing distance which makes it an outstanding backcountry  
trail for experienced backcountry hikers in glorious shape. For the duration of the days of summer at Bear Creek Trail temperatures are commonly in the 90's with overnight lows in the 60's. The wintertime brings highs down to the 50's; during the dark hours in the wintertime at Bear Creek Trail temperatures plunge to the 30's. Being 17.4 miles long; it's considered a longer hike. This region does get very dry sometimes, so make sure you check current conditions and fire restrictions with local forest authorities before you head out. Bear Creek Trail has a total elevation difference of 2,934 feet which is higher than average. If you are in California during backpacking season you have to go backpacking. This hiking trail goes through some very different elevations, and that means that some parts of the hiking trail could be very different from other parts of it.

Briefly about the general area:
You just can't picture the amount of outdoors enjoyable things the area near Bear Creek Trail has to offer. A quick tour to Soldier Creek in the neighborhood of Bear Creek Trail is a great idea, and do put some time aside to spend at Snow Spring since you're here at Bear Creek Trail. Yep, outdoors fun stuff truly is plentiful here in the San Gabriel Mountains. Don't forget to stop at Newman Point since you're here at Bear Creek Trail, and since you're here you will meet lots of folks from close by Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana.
A perfect place to camp here at Bear Creek Trail is Coldbrook Campground; a magnificent place like West Pine Flat here at Bear Creek Trail is too pleasant to miss. There's no way anybody can get bored here in the San Gabriel Mountains. You don't have to go far from Bear Creek Trail to enjoy San Dimas Experimental Forest; as expected, A spree to Lost Canyon is always fun.
Camping is available at Lower Bear Campground, and it's a fine idea to stop at Coldbrook Creek. A visit to La Cienega Spring will fill your spirit with wonderful feelings; Hoot Owl Flats is right here at Bear Creek Trail.

Location of Trailhead 1: Latitude 34.2886, Longitude -117.8429
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Location of Trailhead 2: Latitude 34.2402, Longitude -117.8832
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Trailhead 1 to Trailhead 2:
Total hiking length = 8.7 miles
Total climbing distance = 2.8 miles
Difficulty : Difficult
Casual Hiking Pace: 7 hours
Fast Hiking Pace: 4 hours

Trailhead 2 to Trailhead 1:
Total hiking length = 8.7 miles
Total climbing distance = 5.1 miles
Difficulty : Difficult
Casual Hiking Pace: 8.5 hours
Fast Hiking Pace: 5 hours
    Trailhead 1 back to Trailhead 1:
Total hiking length = 17.4 miles
Total climbing distance = 7.9 miles
Difficulty : Difficult
Casual Hiking Pace: 2.5 days
Fast Hiking Pace: 1.5 days

Trailhead 2 back to Trailhead 2:
Total hiking length = 17.4 miles
Total climbing distance = 7.9 miles
Difficulty : Difficult
Casual Hiking Pace: 2.5 days
Fast Hiking Pace: 1.5 days

Total elevation difference: 2934 feet


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 Trails Near Bear Creek Trail:
Rattlesnake Trail, Los Angeles County , 4 miles away,  6.4 hiking miles, 1110 feet elevation difference
High Desert National Recreational Trail, Los Angeles County , 7 miles away, 19.1 hiking miles, 3046 feet elevation difference
Heaton Flat Trail, Los Angeles County , 9 miles away, 13.3 hiking miles, 3275 feet elevation difference
Allison Trail, Los Angeles County , 10 miles away,  17 hiking miles, 5495 feet elevation difference
Fern Canyon Trail, Los Angeles County , 12 miles away,  13 hiking miles, 455 feet elevation difference
Upper Winter Creek Trail, Los Angeles County , 13 miles away, 4.8 hiking miles, 3976 feet elevation difference
Gabrielino National Scenic Trail, Los Angeles County , 13 miles away, 19.9 hiking miles, 3843 feet elevation difference
 Camp Grounds Near Bear Creek Trail:
Coldbrook Campground, Los Angeles County, 2 miles away
Lower Bear Campground, Los Angeles County, 2 miles away
Deer Flat Campground, Los Angeles County, 3 miles away
Little Jimmy Campground, Los Angeles County, 4 miles away
Follows Camp, Azusa, 5 miles away
 National Parks Near Bear Creek Trail:
Mojave National Preserve, Barstow - CA , 66 miles away
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks - CA , 70 miles away
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Best Western Route 66 Glendora Inn, Glendora , 9 miles away
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Rodeway Inn & Suites, Pomona , 10 miles away
Red Roof Inn San Dimas, San Dimas , 11 miles away
 Lakes Near Bear Creek Trail
San Gabriel Reservoir, Los Angeles County , 5 miles away

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