slgwv's photos with the keyword: Mt. Lowe trail

Mt. Lowe Trail, San Gabriel Mountains, southern California. SoCal isn't always sunny! This is a forest service fire road that is open to foot, horse, and mountain bike traffic--in theory, also to emergency vehicles, but they'd have to move some rocks out of the way. The slopes are steep enough, and the road narrow enough, that it would also be a hairy ride in a vehicle! The road eventually connects to an old railroad grade, the Mt. Lowe Railway, which ran excursion trains from Altadena up into the San Gabriels from the 1890s to the 1930s. It would have been a spectacular train ride, at least when the sun was out.