Overview
Road Parameters
Road Description
Detailed Road Log
Hikes Using This Road
Links To Further Information
Overview
Road Parameters Maps: Pasadena USGS Quadrangle.
Season: All. Best weekdays to avoid weekend crowds.
Roadhead and directions to Roadhead: From Loma Alta Drive in Altadena, go north on Chaney Trail to the top of Sunset Ridge turning left and going down the hill on the other side to a large parking lot. An Adventure Pass is needed. Walk past the campground. The Road, FS 12W18, begins this side of the stream crossing. Be aware that entrance and exit along Chaney Trail (Road) is between the hours of 6 am and 10 pm only.
Length:
Elevation Changes: The elevation of the parking lot is ~1800'. The beginning of the road at Millard Campground is at ~1880'. See the table below for altitudes along the way.
Road Condition:
Road Maintenance:
History: See Millard Canyon Trail for the history of Millard Canyon.
Road Description Take the road from the east end of the parking lot through the campground. At the end of the campground you'll see the water flowing over the road. This water has just enjoyed a 50' fall over the waterfall about 15 minutes earlier, assuming the water flows at 2 mph.
Detailed Road Log
Mileage Altitude (') Location 0.00 1800 Parking Lot for Millard Campground at end of Chaney Trail. 0.18 1880 Millard Campground stream crossing 1.11 2040 Jct. El Prieto Fire Road (leads to Canyon Crest Road, Altadena) 1.30 2210 Cross El Prieto stream 2.31 2380 Jct. 2N66; enter Fern Canyon. Sign: "Brown Mountain [Fire?] Road Junction, Elevation 2330'". The section heading downhill (straight ahead) to the Arroyo Seco Trail near JPL is also called Lower Brown Mountain Fire Road, but is designated 2N66. The section heading uphill (right) is now 2N66, the Brown Mountain Fire Road. 2.56 2530 Cross east branch of Fern Canyon stream. 2.73 2560 Ridge between two branches of Fern Canyon stream. 3.09 2500 Cross west branch of Fern Canyon stream. 3.70 2540 Enter Pine Canyon at Ridge between it and Fern Canyon. 4.50 2740 Cross Pine Canyon stream. 5.03 2900 End road at Saddle on Brown Mountain ridge. Jct Ken Burton Trail.
Hikes Using This Road When available, the date of the information is given in parentheses for each link.
Trail Runs Near JPL: Brown Mountain (1991), Harry Langenbacher (list of way-points, distances and elevations from his mountain bicycle)
Brown Mountain Fire Road (14Aug96), Tom Chester
Brown Mountain (??), GORP, adapted from Robert Immler's Mountain Bicycling in the San Gabriels.
Afoot and Afield in Los Angeles County by Jerry Schad, page 167, Millard Canyon Falls.
Roads of the Angeles by John W. Robinson, Trip 20 Millard Canyon to Millard Canyon Falls.
Links To Further Information
See also Millard Canyon Trail: Links.
Links checked 5/21/00.
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Updated 19 January 2001.