Good Hikes near LA

[+chubby forest monkey]

I'll be visiting in two weeks, and will have a day and the car to go on a geoadventure while my family goes to Universal Studios. I like long hikes,and lots of elevation gain on lesser used trails. I'm comfortable with off-trail scrambling.

 

Can you make a recommendation for me? I would be perfectly happy with just one smiley if it's a good hike.

 

thanks,

 

the cfm of OR

[+Duncan!]

I'll be visiting in two weeks, and will have a day and the car to go on a geoadventure while my family goes to Universal Studios. I like long hikes,and lots of elevation gain on lesser used trails. I'm comfortable with off-trail scrambling.

 

Can you make a recommendation for me? I would be perfectly happy with just one smiley if it's a good hike.

 

thanks,

 

the cfm of OR

 

Not my neck of the woods, but I did enjoy the Bridge to Nowhere hike.

 

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=423674

 

Cache near the trailhead: GCH426. Looks like it will be archived soon, tho.

 

Have fun!

[tommytrojan360]

I just went to Griffith Park a few weeks ago and found 27 geocaches in probably an eight hour time span. If you want, I can email you the list caches and the order that our group got them in. Griffith Park is beautiful and there are a lot of fun, elevation gaining and decreasing caches along the route. Let me know.

[+jeepdelfuego]

I just went to Griffith Park a few weeks ago and found 27 geocaches in probably an eight hour time span. If you want, I can email you the list caches and the order that our group got them in. Griffith Park is beautiful and there are a lot of fun, elevation gaining and decreasing caches along the route. Let me know.

 

Griffith Park is nice and close to Universal Studios. Also, you can find some other neat hikes here:

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23904

http://www.lamountains.com/

 

Have fun!

[+chubby forest monkey]

Thanks for your suggestions.

 

I ended up going to Echo Mountain and Muir Peak. What a wonderful area, I was surprised there were so few visitors to the caches near Muir Peak. I really loved visiting the ghost town remnants of White City that remain on Echo Mountain.