User Log In or Sign Up Ventana Wilderness - Hiking and Backpacking Trails Backpacking and Hiking Trails in the Ventana Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest A total of (41) trails are currently available in the Ventana Wilderness Arroyo Seco Trail - 4.66 Miles 4E10 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Bear Basin Connector Trail - .49 Miles 3E16 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Bear Basin Trail - 2.46 Miles 3E11 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Bee Camp Trail - 1.16 Miles 3E13 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Big Pine Trail - 7.60 Miles 2E03 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Big Sur Trail - 8.80 Miles 3E07 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Black Cone Trail - 7.74 Miles 3E14 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Carmel River Trail - 13.20 Miles

3E03 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Carrizo Trail - 5.29 Miles 4E27 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Church Creek Trail - 5.13 Miles 3E05 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Cone Peak Trail - 3.30 Miles 4E12 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Gamboa Trail - 4.39 Miles 4E11 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Horse Pasture Trail - 5.09 Miles 4E05 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Jackson Camp Trail - 1.22 Miles 2E08 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Kirk Creek Trail / Vicente Falt Trail - 5.02 Miles 4E17 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Lost Valley Connector Trail - 1.55 Miles 4E09 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Lost Valley Trail Ventana Wilderness - 11.08 Miles

4E08 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Marble Peak Trail - 13.14 Miles 4E07 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Mill Creek Trail - 3.06 Miles 5E12 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Miller Canyon Trail - 7.98 Miles 3E04 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County North Coast Ridge Trail - 11.14 Miles 3E10 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Pine Ridge Trail - 22.88 Miles 3E06 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Puerto Suelo Trail - Ventana - 2.00 Miles 3E08 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Rattlesnake Creek Trail - 3.40 Miles 2E11 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Rocky Creek Trail - 5.54 Miles 27W04 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Rodeo Flat Trail - 2.73 Miles 4E26 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County

San Antonio Trail - 3.60 Miles 5E04 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County San Clemente Trail - 1.86 Miles 2E01 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Santa Lucia Creek Connector Trail - 1.0 Miles 5E03 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Santa Lucia Creek Trail - 16.05 Miles Santa Lucia Peak Trail - 2.69 Milestakata backpack uk 6E01 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey Countyneckermann backpack Skinner Ridge Trail - 7.14 Milesdmmd backpack 1E04 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey Countystihl 340 backpack blower for sale

Slick Rock Trail - 3.25 Miles 5E20 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County South Fork Trail - 4.58 Miles 3E09 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Stone Ridge Trail - 7.67 Miles 4E13 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Terrace Creek Trail - 1.48 Miles 3E22 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey Countymad pax backpack ebay Tin House Trail - 1.16 Milesoutdoor doite backpack 2E05 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Tony Trail - 2.63 Miles 4E06 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Turner Creek Trail - 1.21 Miles 1E02 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County Ventana Camp Trail - 1.10 Miles 2E14 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County

Ventana Double Cone Trail - 7.53 Miles 2E04 • Ventana • Monterey Ranger District • Monterey County 2015 © Hike Los Padres - Do not copy content, maps, data, images and Hiking and Backpacking Trails || Website developed By John Ziegler and Powered by Santa Barbara Web & Graphic DesignAdventure Weekend: Hike Big Sur, California Into the mystic on the Pine Ridge Trail. It’s easy to understand why surfer dudes and photographers groove on its thundering surf and sweeping cliffs, but even the likes of legendary eroticist Henry Miller have swooned over California’s Big Sur coast. As part of the bohemian culture that took root here, Miller described the place as “seductive” and “hypnotic”–which is fairly obvious even from the Pacific Coast Highway, the way most visitors experience it. But the grandeur extends well beyond windshield range: Less than 45 minutes from Carmel’s overpriced bauble shops lie thousands of steep, wild acres studded with swimming holes, bubbling hot springs, waterfall-draped ridges, and angular canyons.

Begin hiking in the 240,000-acre Ventana Wilderness, and despite the tang of salt air, you feel sealed off from the mega-rich newcomers who’ve methodically nudged out Miller’s ilk. For what is arguably the finest weekend of backpacking along the entire California coast, plan to spend 3 days on the 23-mile Pine Ridge Trail, which meanders through groves of 300-foot redwood trees and fern-lined canyons. From the trailhead at Big Sur Station, the path gradually serves up views of the Pacific Ocean and the peaks of Ventana Double Cone, the area’s signature two-headed peak. (Early inhabitants believed a rock arch once spanned the two summits–hence ventana, the Spanish word for “window.”) At 6.7 miles, you’ll arrive at a detour to Barlow Flats Camp, where you’ll descend .2 mile and follow a narrow trail to an 80-foot-wide swimming hole along a creek. Venture a little farther downstream, and you can splash around in other pools near a waterfall. Double back to the Pine Ridge Trail and continue another 2.9 miles to the stone-lined tubs of Sykes Hot Springs, which gurgles at a soothing 100°F.