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Creosote Trail & Johnny Lang Canyon via Bigfoot Trail is a 14.2-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. It climbs 1,425 ft, with sections as steep as 29% grade. It scores 93/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi3,737 – 4,794 ft · steepest grade: 29%14.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Creosote Trail 34.07294, -116.23752
Nearest town Panorama Heights, CA

Directions

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Creosote Trail & Johnny Lang Canyon via Bigfoot Trail

14.2 mi · ▲ 1,425 ft · 5 hr 27 min

Elevation 3,737–4,795 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Creosote Trail · 34.07294, -116.23752

Weather Aug 3: Clear, high 99°F / low 79° · precip 0% · wind 15 mph · sunrise 5:58 AM · sunset 7:45 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Creosote Trail, heading SW.
  2. 0.6 miBear left onto Bigfoot Trail, heading SW.
  3. 1.4 miTurn left onto Quail Wash, heading NE.
  4. 1.8 miSharp right onto Quails Springs Historic, heading SE.
  5. 0.8 miTurn left onto Johnny Lang Canyon, heading W.
  6. 2.6 miReach Creosote Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  7. 2.6 miTurn right onto Quails Springs Historic, heading N.
  8. 0.8 miSharp left onto Quail Wash, heading SE.
  9. 1.8 miTurn right onto Bigfoot Trail, heading SW.
  10. 1.4 miBear right onto Creosote Trail, heading NE.
  11. 0.6 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

24% gravel76% unspecified

Weather

ClearTemperature 99°F79°
Feels like83°Precip0%Wind15 mphUV9Humidity16%
Hourly temperature
100°75°
Sunrise 5:58 AM12 AM3 AM9 AM12 PM3 PMSunset 7:45 PM
Tue 99°76°
Wed 95°72°
Thu 98°75°
Fri 99°78°
Sat 99°78°
Sun 94°76°

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