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
- Start on Deer Meadow Trail, heading SW.
- 100 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading S.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Lower Meadow Trail, heading S.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading S.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Hill Trail, heading SE.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading SE.
- 1.5 miContinue straight onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
- 400 ftSharp right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading SW.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto High Meadow Trail, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear right onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading NE.
- 1.4 miBear right onto High Meadow Trail, heading SE.
- 150 ftTurn left onto Upper High Meadow Trail, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Upper Wildcat Canyon Trail, heading NW.
- 1 miReach Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1 miTurn right onto Upper High Meadow Trail, heading E.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto High Meadow Trail, heading SE.
- 1 miBear right onto Rogue Valley Trail, heading SE.
- 0.5 miBear left onto High Meadow Trail, heading E.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Wildcat Loop Trail, heading SE.
- 0.5 miSharp left onto Bay Tree Cutoff Trail, heading W.
- 400 ftContinue straight onto Stephen E. Abbors Trail, heading SW.
- 1.6 miTurn left onto Hill Trail, heading E.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Rancho San Antonio Bike Path, heading NW.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Lower Meadow Trail, heading NE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Permanente Creek Trail, heading NE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Deer Meadow Trail, heading NE.
- 0.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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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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