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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

  1. Start on Mora Trail, heading W.
  2. 0.4 miBear left onto Ravensbury Trail, heading SW.
  3. 50 ftBear left onto Chamise Trail, heading SE.
  4. 50 ftContinue straight onto Ravensbury Trail, heading SE.
  5. 450 ftBear left onto Rogue Valley Trail, heading SE.
  6. 0.4 miBear left onto High Meadow Trail, heading W.
  7. 50 ftContinue straight onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading W.
  8. 0.5 miSharp left onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
  9. 400 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading S.
  10. 1.6 miTurn left onto Hill Trail, heading NW.
  11. 0.4 miTurn right onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading E.
  12. 0.1 miTurn right onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading SE.
  13. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Hammond-Snyder Loop Trail, heading SE.
  14. 0.3 miReach Mora Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  15. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading NW.
  16. 0.3 miTurn left onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading NW.
  17. 0.2 miTurn left onto Hill Trail, heading W.
  18. 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
  19. 50 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading SW.
  20. 1.5 miContinue straight onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
  21. 450 ftSharp right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading SW.
  22. 0.5 miContinue straight onto High Meadow Trail, heading E.
  23. 50 ftBear right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading E.
  24. 0.4 miBear right onto Ravensbury Trail, heading NW.
  25. 450 ftContinue straight onto Chamise Trail, heading W.
  26. 50 ftBear right onto Ravensbury Trail, heading NW.
  27. 50 ftBear right onto Mora Trail, heading NW.
  28. 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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