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9 unusual facts about San Gabriel Mountains


Antelope Valley of the California High Desert AVA

The Antelope Valley region is an east-facing valley, opening up to the Mojave Desert, with the Tehachapi Mountains to the north and west, and the San Gabriel Mountains, the Sierra Pelona Mountains, and Portal Ridge to the south.

Apamea gabrieli

It was described in 2000 from a specimen collected in the San Gabriel Mountains near Big Pines in Los Angeles County, California.

Little Santa Anita Canyon

Little Santa Anita Canyon is a canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains of California, extending south from Mount Wilson down to the town of Sierra Madre.

Masters of Harmony

The chapter’s original name, Foothill Cities, was derived from the series of towns that ran along the southern base of the San Gabriel Mountains, an area where most of the organizers then lived.

Mickey Thompson

On March 16, 1988, Thompson and his wife Trudy were killed by two gunmen at their home in Bradbury, California in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

San Sevaine Flats

Henry with part of the gang moved into the eastern San Gabriel Mountains at San Sevaine Flats from which they began rustling, committing robbery and murder as they did.

San Sevaine Flats is a small area of flatland east of Cucamonga Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in San Bernardino County, California.

Tim Solliday

Using the pastel medium, he, Karl and Peter Seitz Adams went on plein-air trips to the local foothills, the Southland beaches, including trips to the ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains.

Wallace Neff

The view from its broad portals at 100 feet gave an enormous panorama not only of the Southern California country side, now blocked by the since-built steeple of Westminster Presbyterian Church to its south, but an expansive view of the San Gabriel Mountains to its north which boast peaks up to 7,000 feet in altitude.


Eaton Canyon

Eaton Canyon is a major canyon beginning at the Eaton Saddle near Mount Markham and San Gabriel Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest, USA.

Ernest E. Debs Regional Park

Ernest E. Debs Regional Park is located in the western San Rafael Hills, with views of the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mountains, and Downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles and Mount Washington Railway

Visitors then enjoyed a yet-unspoiled vista stretching from the nearby San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

Tauschia parishii

It is endemic to California, where it occurs in several mountain ranges, including the White and Inyo Mountains, the Tehachapis, and the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains.


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