California hiking trails - Yerba Buena Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County

   
  Trekking in California is so much fun. Yerba Buena Trail is not very close to Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana at all, but it is an exciting site to hike. There are many magnificent backpacking trails in California; Yerba Buena Trail in Los Angeles County is one of them. Yerba Buena Trail stays roughly within the same elevation zone the whole time, so you get pretty much the same conditions along the whole great outdoors trail. This is a two-ended backcountry trail with two trailheads, so backpacking it one way is an option if you can arrange for a ride
    back. The backcountry trails of the San Gabriel Mountains are a fine way to explore these peaks. Yerba Buena Trail is not that long but it's always glorious to bring some emergency supplies, you never know what could happen. At Yerba Buena Trail through the summertime highs are
in the 90's. Once the sun is down it drops down to the 60's. Daytime highs all through the winter are in the 50's, and after the sun is down all through the winter temperatures at Yerba Buena Trail drop into the 30's. The total elevation difference for Yerba Buena Trail is 1,394 feet, and that is about average. There are plenty of backpacking trails in California; each one of them has something unique to offer. Yerba Buena Trail gets very little precipitation; most of the rain falls through February; July meanwhile is the driest month. This is just one  
of a large number of wilderness hiking trails in this neighborhood. This part of California is always a delight to visit during trekking season. Don’t forget to check for any current restrictions or closures before you go. Being 3.2 miles long it's a short great outdoors trail. You should count on this trek taking about 3 hours, but of course some folks walk a bit slower and some a bit faster. This wilderness hiking trail sometimes gets very dry, so do check for current fire restrictions before you go if you plan to bring a stove or make a camp fire. You can't spend all your time indoors you need to get out once in a while, and if you happen to be in Los Angeles County of California, Yerba Buena Trail is a splendid local hiking and backpacking trail for doing a bit of leg stretching. Yerba Buena Trail is a very short backcountry trail having an average number of uphill miles which makes it an outstanding wilderness hiking trail for the average person looking for an outstanding adventure.

Briefly about the general area:
There's so much to do here at Yerba Buena Trail that you need to camp here for a while, Tom Lucas Campground is a great location for that; lots of people from Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana come here. Be careful coming to the San Gabriel Mountains, you might not ever want to go home again. The beauty of mother nature reveals herself at Yerba Buena Spring, and South Fork Pacoima Canyon is another magnificent location to take a look at nearby.
Getting to Spring Creek from Yerba Buena Trail is painless. You'll need more than a day to discover everything Yerba Buena Trail has to offer, you can camp at Diamond Campground.

Location of Trailhead 1: Latitude 34.3626, Longitude -118.2882
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Location of Trailhead 2: Latitude 34.3509, Longitude -118.282
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Trailhead 1 to Trailhead 2:
Total hiking length = 1.6 miles
Total climbing distance = 1 miles
Difficulty : Medium
Casual Hiking Pace: 1.5 hours
Fast Hiking Pace: 1 hours

Trailhead 2 to Trailhead 1:
Total hiking length = 1.6 miles
Total climbing distance = .4 miles
Difficulty : Easy
Casual Hiking Pace: 1 hours
Fast Hiking Pace: .5 hours
    Trailhead 1 back to Trailhead 1:
Total hiking length = 3.2 miles
Total climbing distance = 1.4 miles
Difficulty : Medium
Casual Hiking Pace: 3 hours
Fast Hiking Pace: 2 hours

Trailhead 2 back to Trailhead 2:
Total hiking length = 3.2 miles
Total climbing distance = 1.4 miles
Difficulty : Medium
Casual Hiking Pace: 3 hours
Fast Hiking Pace: 2 hours

Total elevation difference: 1394 feet


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Gold Canyon Trail, Los Angeles County , 3 miles away,  3 hiking miles, 1151 feet elevation difference
Oak Spring Trail, Los Angeles County , 4 miles away, 4.4 hiking miles, 2140 feet elevation difference
Dagger Flat Trail, Los Angeles County , 4 miles away,  2.6 hiking miles, 1319 feet elevation difference
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Idlehour Trail, Los Angeles County , 16 miles away, 6.2 hiking miles, 2028 feet elevation difference
 Camp Grounds Near Yerba Buena Trail:
Diamond Campground, Los Angeles County, 2 miles away
Tom Lucas Campground, Los Angeles County, 4 miles away
Rancho Ybarra, Tujunga, 4 miles away
Honeybee Campground, Los Angeles County, 4 miles away
Dutch Louie Campground, Los Angeles County, 4 miles away
 National Parks Near Yerba Buena Trail:
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks - CA , 41 miles away
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