Chantry Flats to Mt. Wilson
The club route will be determined closer to date. I will personally go out and check on conditions and open trails.
As a club we will meet early morning at the bottom where the gate is, park in the neighborhood and carpool from there. Parking permits will be strictly enforced at Chantry Flats parking area, parking spots are very limited.
After years of closure following the Bobcat Fire in 2020, the U.S. Forest Service will reopen the Big Santa Anita Canyon — which includes the popular Chantry Flat recreation area — to the public on Oct. 2.
The re-opening follows thousands of hours spent by several volunteer groups to clear trails damaged in the fire and made worse by subsequent atmospheric rivers.
The Bobcat fire tore through about 116,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains in 2020. It destroyed 171 structures and resulted in the evacuation of residents in Sierra Madre, Monrovia, Bradbury and Duarte.
The fire also burned down 17 primitive cabins in Big Santa Anita Canyon, many of them more than 100 years old. The cabins are relics from the great hiking era of the early 1900s. Now about 60 remain, although there are hopes to rebuild some of the lost cabins.
What trails are open or closed?
CLOSED TRAILS:
Zion Trail
Sturtevant Trail closed to Mt. Wilson
Anything north of Sturtevant Camp is closed to Newcomb PassOPEN TRAILS:
First Water Trail
Upper and Lower Winter Creek trails
Sturtevant Loop to Sturtevant Falls
Gabrielino National Recreation Trail from Chantry Flats to Sturtevant Camp