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High Meadow Trail–Hill Trail, 6 sights is an 11.3-mile out-and-back in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve near The Highlands, CA. It climbs 2,076 ft. It scores 9/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi318 – 1,043 ft11.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Deer Meadow Trail 37.33999, -122.08999
Nearest town The Highlands, CA

Directions

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High Meadow Trail–Hill Trail, 6 sights

11.3 mi · ▲ 2,076 ft · 4 hr 48 min

Elevation 319–1,044 ft

Out & Back · Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve

Trailhead: Deer Meadow Trail · 37.33999, -122.08999

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 6:16 AM · sunset 8:14 PM

No dogs on part of this route

  1. Start on Deer Meadow Trail, heading SW.
  2. 100 ftTurn left, heading S.
  3. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading S.
  4. 50 ftContinue straight onto Lower Meadow Trail, heading S.
  5. 50 ftContinue straight onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading S.
  6. 0.2 miTurn right onto Hill Trail, heading SE.
  7. 0.4 miTurn right, heading SE.
  8. 50 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading SE.
  9. 1.5 miContinue straight onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
  10. 400 ftSharp right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading SW.
  11. 0.5 miContinue straight onto High Meadow Trail, heading NE.
  12. 50 ftBear right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading NE.
  13. 1.4 miBear right onto High Meadow Trail, heading SE.
  14. 150 ftTurn left onto Upper High Meadow Trail, heading SE.
  15. 0.3 miTurn left onto Upper Wildcat Canyon Trail, heading NW.
  16. 1 miReach Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  17. 1 miTurn right onto Upper High Meadow Trail, heading E.
  18. 0.3 miTurn right onto High Meadow Trail, heading SE.
  19. 1 miBear right onto Rogue Valley Trail, heading SE.
  20. 0.5 miBear left onto High Meadow Trail, heading E.
  21. 50 ftContinue straight onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading SE.
  22. 0.5 miSharp left onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
  23. 400 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading SW.
  24. 1.6 miTurn left onto Hill Trail, heading E.
  25. 0.4 miTurn left onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading NW.
  26. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Lower Meadow Trail, heading NE.
  27. 50 ftContinue straight onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading NE.
  28. 50 ftContinue straight onto Deer Meadow Trail, heading NE.
  29. 0.1 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

27% dirt7% paved66% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:16 AMSunset 8:14 PM

Good to know

  • No dogs on part of this route

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