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Lower Freeway Wall & Chongo Boulder via Keys Ranch Road is a 4.9-mile out-and-back near Panorama Heights, CA. The route passes Chongo Boulder before reaching Lower Freeway Wall at the turnaround, 2.4 miles in. It is mostly level, with 162 ft of elevation gain, and mostly dirt. It scores 76/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi4,075 – 4,213 ft5.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 34.01834, -116.15965
Nearest town Panorama Heights, CA

Directions

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Lower Freeway Wall & Chongo Boulder via Keys Ranch Road

4.9 mi · ▲ 162 ft · 1 hr 43 min

Elevation 4,074–4,213 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: 34.01834, -116.15965

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 6:46 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading N.
  2. 0.4 miPass Chongo Boulder.
  3. 50 ftBear left onto Keys Ranch Road, heading NW.
  4. 0.8 miTurn left, heading SW.
  5. 0.4 miTurn left, heading SW.
  6. 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  7. 50 ftBear right, heading S.
  8. 0.1 miTurn right, heading NW.
  9. 0.6 miBear right, heading S.
  10. 250 ftBear right, heading S.
  11. 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
  12. 150 ftReach Lower Freeway Wall, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  13. 100 ftTurn right, heading S.
  14. 50 ftBear left, heading S.
  15. 250 ftBear left, heading S.
  16. 0.6 miTurn left, heading E.
  17. 0.1 miBear left, heading E.
  18. 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
  19. 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  20. 1.3 miBear right, heading S.
  21. 0.3 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

67% dirt33% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:32 AMSunset 6:46 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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