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Pleasant View Potential Wilderness
 Size:
Approximately 27,232 acres
Managing agency: Angeles National Forest
Location: Los Angeles County, north side of San Gabriel Mountains near Juniper Hills.
Description:
- Home to sensitive species: California spotted owl, flammulated owl, ferruginous hawk, mountain
yellow legged frog, desert tortoise
- Within lies Little Rock Creek, an Area of High Ecological Significance
- Pacific Crest Trail and the Silver Moccasin Trail - for decades a rite of passage for many Boy
Scouts.
- Outstanding recreational values include back country skiing, stream swimming, fishing,
horseback riding
 "The
north front of the San Gabriel Mountains rises abruptly out of the desert, especially
the parts north of the middle and eastern high country. Some of the canyons
that incise this rampart are quite imposing, being deep, V-shaped gorges. Probably
the most impressive of these north-facing canyons is the South Fork of Big Rock
Creek, which carves a steep path as it drops from high on the Angeles Crest
down into the San Andreas Rift region at the foot of the mountains.
- John Robinson's Trails of the Angeles
 The
area is described in Tom Stienstra and Ann Marie Brown's California Hiking
as follows: "dense forest of big firs, cedars and pines. There's almost no undergrowth
in these woods, just conifers and big rocks. It feels like you're in the southern
Sierra Nevada." Little Rock Creek and area streams offer refreshing swimming
holes and trout fishing. Cross-country Skiing, snowshoeing and horseback riding
are also popular.
Access:
- From I-210 north of Pasadena, take Angeles Crest Highway (2)
35 miles east to the trailhead for the High Desert National Recreation Trail
at Islip Saddle
- Other trails include: High Desert National Recreation Trail;
Pacific Crest Trail; South Fork Big Rock Creek Trail
 For
additional information, please contact:
Tim Allyn
Sierra Club
3435 Wilshire Blvd. #302
Los Angeles, CA 90010-1901
Phone: (213) 387-6528 x202
Email: tim.allyn@sierraclub.org
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Just three miles off of Interstate 80, 
