Hike to Fish Canyon Falls

Fish Canyon Falls offers a splendid hike. The 80-foot, three-tier waterfalls are one of the very best in the San Gabriels. Abundant sycamore, bay, bigleaf maple, alder, willow, and live oak provide refreshing shade in many sections along the trail. Lush ferns, poison oak, and other green plants create a tropical feel. In the spring you are treated with a fine display of colorful wildflowers. The rugged, chaparral-covered canyon walls rise steeply above you. The trail head is inside a working rock quarry called Vulcan Materials. As a public relations service, Vulcan Materials provides free parking and a continuous shuttle from the parking area to the trail head.

Directions: To get to the Vulcan shuttle car park, you'll need to drive towards the junction of the I-210 and I-605 Freeways in the city of Duarte (near Irwindale).

If you're headed east on the I-210, you'll want to exit the Mount Olive exit then turn right onto Huntington Drive.

If you're headed west on the I-210, you'll want to exit Irwindale Ave., head north, then turn left at Huntington Drive.

If you're headed north on the I-605, you'll want to take the 2nd lane to the left towards the Huntington Drive exit just before the freeway junctions with the I-210 West (if you ended up on the right lanes and took I-210 East, don't worry; you can still take the Irwindale Ave. exit to get to Huntington Drive).

Once on Huntington Drive, you'll be driving towards Encanto Parkway (between Mount Olive Dr. and Irwindale Ave.). Head north on Encanto Parkway to its end (going past the Encanto Park Museum as well as an Equestrian Center and dirt road that you don't take) where you'll be passing through the forbidding fence marking the Vulcan Materials boundary and entering a very large car park area. The van shuttle is located inside the car park.

Meet us in the parking lot at 10am next to the van shuttle. This hike is 4 miles long and lasts approximately 3 hours.

Please bring a hat, sunscreen, hiking shoes/cross trainers, snacks and at least a liter of water. Rain cancels.

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