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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J11°2°190
- F11°2°176
- M12°3°140
- A14°4°61
- M19°8°21
- J23°11°5
- J27°14°1
- A26°14°1
- S24°12°8
- O19°8°42
- N14°4°102
- D11°2°153
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.
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 23 km · 14 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 18 km E of Big Sur (Monterey County, California) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Los Padres National Forest
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- California
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- 36.3395, -121.6492
- Route start
- 36.2906, -121.6119
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 19160009
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.