Hammond-Snyder Loop Trail–High Meadow Trail, 5 sights is an 8.4-mile out-and-back in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve near Loyola, CA. It climbs 1,419 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade. It scores 9/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi364 – 955 ft · steepest grade: 17%8.8 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Mora Trail 37.33760, -122.10099
Nearest town Loyola, CA
Directions
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Hammond-Snyder Loop Trail–High Meadow Trail, 5 sights
8.4 mi · ▲ 1,419 ft · 3 hr 31 min
Elevation 363–956 ft
Out & Back · Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
Trailhead: Mora Trail · 37.33760, -122.10099
Weather Aug 4: sunrise 6:16 AM · sunset 8:14 PM
No dogs on part of this route
- Start on Mora Trail, heading W.
- 0.4 miBear left onto Ravensbury Trail, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear left onto Chamise Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Ravensbury Trail, heading SE.
- 450 ftBear left onto Rogue Valley Trail, heading SE.
- 0.4 miBear left onto High Meadow Trail, heading W.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading W.
- 0.5 miSharp left onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
- 400 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading S.
- 1.6 miTurn left onto Hill Trail, heading NW.
- 0.4 miTurn right onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading E.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading SE.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Hammond-Snyder Loop Trail, heading SE.
- 0.3 miReach Mora Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading NW.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading NW.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Hill Trail, heading W.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading SW.
- 1.5 miContinue straight onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
- 450 ftSharp right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading SW.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto High Meadow Trail, heading E.
- 50 ftBear right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading E.
- 0.4 miBear right onto Ravensbury Trail, heading NW.
- 450 ftContinue straight onto Chamise Trail, heading W.
- 50 ftBear right onto Ravensbury Trail, heading NW.
- 50 ftBear right onto Mora Trail, heading NW.
- 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
17% dirt4% paved79% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:16 AMSunset 8:14 PM
Good to know
- No dogs on part of this route
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