These 26 hiking trails burned in the Eaton fire

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An accounting of the harm of the Eaton occurrence is inactive ongoing. Since starting successful aboriginal January, it has burned much than 14,000 acres, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses successful Altadena and, arsenic of Friday, killed 16 people.

Now that the occurrence is 65% contained, we tin statesman to analyse the harm and way closures successful the surrounding mountains arsenic well. The occurrence is believed to person started successful Eaton Canyon, a beloved hiking area, earlier spreading eastbound and westbound into Angeles National Forest.

More than 2 twelve trails, galore of them popular, interconnected time hikes, look to person besides burned. Many of them were favorites among locals who could locomotion a abbreviated region from their homes successful Altadena to the trailheads. Last week, I visited Eaton Canyon and observed the blackened manzanita and different chaparral. Even though the Eaton Canyon Nature Center burned down, the oaks and sycamores astir it look to person survived, immoderate lone singed from the fire.

The Rubio Canyon way was burned successful the Eaton fire.

To amended recognize wherever you tin hike responsibly (and what areas you indispensable avoid), I constructed the database below. To enactment unneurotic a amended representation of the damage, I consulted mapping instrumentality CalTopo, cross-referencing its maps and the occurrence footprints with lists of section hiking trails to find which routes were successful the pain area.

That said, conscionable due to the fact that a way is successful the pain country doesn’t mean it was destroyed. We’ll larn much astir circumstantial conditions of each way successful the coming months. Trails burned successful wildfires often enactment closed for respective months to years to let for the wood to retrieve and for way attraction crews to repair routes and infrastructure.

Keep successful caput that hiking (and immoderate different activity) is temporarily prohibited successful Angeles National Forest done Friday, adjacent extracurricular the burned trails listed below. Officials said this measurement to temporarily adjacent the wood was indispensable due to the fact that the occurrence hazard is astatine “critical,” the highest level of information successful the graduated standard utilized by the U.S. Forest Service.

The 700,000-acre country is acceptable to reopen astatine midnight Saturday unless officials widen the closure. The trails beneath volition apt stay closed adjacent erstwhile Angeles National Forest remains open.

Trails burned successful the Eaton fire

Mt. Wilson Trail via Little Santa Anita Canyon (including First Water and Orchard Camp)
Mt. Wilson Toll Road (including to Henninger Flats)
Bailey Canyon Trail to Jones Peak
Bailey Canyon Nature Trail to Bailey Canyon falls
Eaton Canyon fire ecology trail
Eaton Canyon trail to falls
Altadena Crest Trail

Part of the Eaton Canyon way aft the Eaton fire.

Middle Sam Merrill Trail northeast to Muir Peak Road: This way is besides referred to connected immoderate maps arsenic Upper Sam Merrill Trail. There is different way northeast of this way that immoderate maps notation to arsenic Upper Sam Merrill Trail.
One Man & Mule Trail (or Muir Peak Road), including Inspiration Point and Muir Peak
Mt. Lowe Railway Trail to Mt. Lowe Road, including Echo Mountain: The archetypal 1.4 miles starting from the Rubio Canyon Trailhead is sometimes referred to arsenic Old Echo Mountain Trail.
Mt. Lowe East Trail: Sometimes referred to connected maps arsenic the Upper Sam Merrill Trail, the archetypal 0.8 mile of this way appears to person burned. The remainder of the trail, whether you instrumentality it 0.6 mile to Mt. Lowe, oregon proceed northeast astir 1 mile to the Markham Saddle, adjacent the San Gabriel Peak trailhead, appears to beryllium extracurricular the pain zone. (Mt. Lowe itself whitethorn person burned. It is connected the borderline of the fire’s bluish perimeter.)

Eaton Canyon arsenic seen from the Eaton Saddle Trailhead successful 2021.

Mt. Lowe West Trail: The archetypal two-thirds of a mile of this way appears to person burned portion the past half-mile appears to autumn extracurricular the fire’s perimeter.
Sunset Ridge Trail: The archetypal 1,000 feet of this way is successful the pain zone. The adjacent 0.8 mile is not, but the past mile appears to person burned.
Dawn Mine Trail: Outside of the archetypal 1,000 feet that follows the Sunset Ridge Trail, the bulk of this way did not burn. One mile aft you commencement from the Sunset Ridge trailhead, there’s a small section, astir 450 feet, that did burn. The country astir Dawn Mine appears not to person burned.
Millard Canyon Falls Trail: Starting from the parking lot, the archetypal half-mile of the way burned. The country astir Millard Canyon Falls doesn’t look to person burned.
Lower Millard Canyon Trail: Also referred to arsenic Millard Canyon Crest Trail, conscionable implicit fractional of this abbreviated way from the Millard Canyon parking batch southwest to a residential country successful Altadena appears to person burned.
Tom Sloane Trail to Saddle: The archetypal mile heading westbound to Tom Sloane Saddle is burned. The remaining 0.8 mile to the Saddle is not burned.
Chaney Trail
Mt. Lowe Motorway to Mt. Lowe Trail Camp: The bulk of this five-mile way is burned, including the Mt. Lowe Trail Camp.