Angeles Crest Highway

On July 22, 2023, at 3:21 a.m., 32-year-old Jesse Munoz of Los Angeles was murdered during a robbery at Mile Marker 36.28 on Angeles Crest Highway.

Compared to the Sierras and the Rockies, the San Gabriel mountains are very much the ugly sisters: the peaks lacking grace, the vegetation rougher, the colors...

PHOTO OF THE DAY Not This Way! By Reg Green They mean it! The road from our valley to Palmdale, which in normal days is brimming with commuters at 7:00 am, had...

PHOTO OF THE DAY The coronavirus has dramatically cut traffic on Angeles Crest Highway but it took a fire estimated to be about seven miles north of La Cañada...

In his version of the expression, “the best things in life are free,” Irving Berlin said it in the forthright way he said everything:...

For hundreds of square miles north of where we live, the terrain is the same: a chain of arid mountains cut by valleys so steep-sided and so tightly covered by...

Are Trails Open or Closed? By Reg Green The parking lot for the Mt. Lukens fire road in the Angeles National Forest was still closed on Sunday morning even...

Sunday morning in April and the Angeles Crest Highway should be bursting with sunshine and families out for a break from the concrete and television set. By Reg...

It’s another gray, clammy early morning in the Foothills. From the bedroom window nothing more than fifty yards away can be seen and any action other than...

The seven-mile dirt road from the Angeles National Forest fire station on Angeles Crest Highway to the top of Mt. Lukens, beloved of hikers and bikers for its...