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California Mission Trail
Next nearby hike: Mission Bay Bike Path 6.0 mi · 9.7 kmExplore Murphy Canyon →
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J18°9°51
- F18°10°59
- M19°10°52
- A20°12°23
- M21°13°5
- J23°15°2
- J25°17°1
- A26°18°1
- S26°18°5
- O24°15°15
- N21°12°31
- D18°9°44
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
California Mission Trail - stage 01 Mission San Diego de Alcalá (1769) to Mission San Luis Rey (1798)
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Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 76 km · 47 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Valley
- Murphy Canyon (GeoNames)
- Nearest town
- 8.0 km W of La Mesa (San Diego County, California) · GeoNames
- Part of
- California Mission Trail (national route)
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- California
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- CMT01
- From / to
- Mission San Diego de Alcalá (1769) → Mission San Luis Rey (1798)
- Route centre
- 32.9971, -117.2380
- Route start
- 32.7844, -117.1068
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 11018231
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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