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Devils Chair Trail

Trail on Sandrock Creek, Watkins Creek in Devil’s Punchbowl County Park, San Gabriel Mountains NM, Angeles NF, Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness near Sun Village, CA

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Length

3.6mi

Surface

Dirt (2½mi)

Unknown (1.1mi)

Allows Hiking

Yes

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The Devil’s Chair Trail follows along the Punchbowl Fault that is thrusting up 8,000-foot Pleasant View Ridge and Pleasant View Wilderness of the San Gabriel Mountains. As you hike along the contour of the mountainside you will pass multiple outcroppings of green-grey rock which are the crush zone of the Punchbowl Fault. Because the Punchbowl Fault comes to the surface as two fracture lines the rock between these fractures has been pressurized, crushed and broken.

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Waterbodies

Ecology

California Montane Chaparral and Woodlands

Southern California Mountains

Arid Montane Slopes

Southern California Montane Conifer Forest