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Red Box, California
Red Box is the name of the junction of the Angeles Crest Highway The Angeles Crest Highway is a two-lane highway over the San Gabriel Mountains, in Los Angeles County, California. It runs through the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Angeles National Forest. With the exception of a section in ..., the Mt. Wilson-Red Box Road, and the Rincon-Red Box Road. It is located at the saddle between Mount Lawlor and San Gabriel Peak. The saddle separates the upper Arroyo Seco drainage from the West Fork of the San Gabriel River. References Unincorporated communities in Los Angeles County, California San Gabriel Mountains Unincorporated communities in California {{LosAngelesCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angeles Crest Highway
The Angeles Crest Highway is a two-lane highway over the San Gabriel Mountains, in Los Angeles County, California. It runs through the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Angeles National Forest. With the exception of a section in La Cañada Flintridge, California, La Cañada Flintridge, the entire route is part of California State Route 2. The road's western terminus is at the intersection at Foothill Boulevard (Los Angeles), Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge, California, La Cañada Flintridge, and its eastern terminus at the California State Route 138, Pearblossom Highway (State Route 138) northeast of Wrightwood, California, Wrightwood. The majority of the route passes through the San Gabriel Mountains located north of the Greater Los Angeles Area. Segments of the road reach elevations above , with a summit of at the Dawson Saddle, which makes this road one of the highest in Southern California. The segment from La Cañada Flintridge to the Los Ange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Wilson (California)
Mount Wilson is at the peak of the San Gabriel Mountains, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. With only minor topographical prominence the peak is not naturally noticeable from a distance, although it is easily identifiable due to the large antenna farm, number of antennas near its summit. It is a subsidiary peak of nearby San Gabriel Peak. Quartz diorite is the dominant bedrock. It is the location of the Mount Wilson Observatory, which is an important astronomical facility in Southern California with historic and aperture telescopes, and and tall Solar tower (astronomy), solar towers. The newer CHARA array, CHARA Array, run by Georgia State University, is also sited there and does important interferometric stellar research. The summit is at . While not the tallest peak in its vicinity, it is high enough in elevation that snow can sometimes interrupt astronomical activities. All of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Lawlor
Mount Lawlor is a mountain summit located in the San Gabriel Mountains, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Description Mount Lawlor is set within San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, approximately north of the community of Altadena and north-northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Precipitation runoff from this mountain's north slope drains to Big Tujunga Creek, the southwest slope drains to Arroyo Seco, and the southeast slope drains into headwaters of the West Fork San Gabriel River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above the West Fork in approximately . Reaching the summit involves hiking six miles (round-trip) with 1,300 feet of elevation gain.Jerry Schad, ''Afoot & Afield: Los Angeles County: 259 Spectacular Outings in Southern California'', Wilderness Press, 2019, In 2009, the mountain's chaparral-covered slopes were burned by the Station Fire. The mountain is named (but misspelled) after Oscar Lawler (1875–1966), a Los Angeles at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Gabriel Peak
San Gabriel Peak is a summit in the San Gabriel Mountains in the U.S. state of California. It was named by the United States Geological Survey in 1894 and is located in the Angeles National Forest. This peak was first named ''The Commodore'' for Commodore Perry Switzer. Background The name is derived from the Misión del Santo Arcangel San Gabriel de los Temblores. From this mission had already come the names of the San Gabriel River and San Gabriel Canyon, the mountain range itself and the entire San Gabriel Valley. The steep south face drops approximately 1,000 feet into the center of an amphitheater at the top of 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, United States. Its drainage flows into the Rio Hondo river and then into the Los ..., forming one of the most sustained steep slopes in the Western San Gabriel mountain range. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County)
The Arroyo Seco, meaning "dry stream" in Spanish, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. , accessed March 16, 2011 seasonal river, canyon, watershed, and cultural area in Los Angeles County, California. The area was explored by Gaspar de Portolà, who named the stream Arroyo Seco because its canyon had the least water of any he had seen. During this exploration, he met the Chief Hahamog-na (Hahamonga) of the Tongva Indians. Waterway course The watershed begins at Red Box Saddle in the Angeles National Forest near Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains. As it enters the urbanized area of the watershed, the Arroyo Seco stream flows between La Cañada Flintridge on the west and Altadena on the east. Just below Devil's Gate Dam, the stream passes underneath the Foothill Freeway. At the north end of Brookside Golf Course the stream becomes channelized into a flood control channel and proceeds southward through the golf c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Gabriel River (California)
The San Gabriel River is a mostly-Urban stream, urban waterway flowing southward through Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles and Orange County, California, Orange Counties, California, in the United States. It is the central of three major rivers draining the Greater Los Angeles area, the others being the Los Angeles River and Santa Ana River. The river's Drainage basin, watershed stretches from the rugged San Gabriel Mountains to the heavily-developed San Gabriel Valley and a significant part of the Los Angeles coastal plain, emptying into the Pacific Ocean between the cities of Long Beach, California, Long Beach and Seal Beach, California, Seal Beach. The San Gabriel once ran across a vast Alluvium, alluvial flood plain, its channels shifting with winter floods and forming extensive wetlands along its perennial course, a relatively scarce source of fresh water in this arid region. The Tongva and their ancestors inhabited the San Gabriel River basin for thousands of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Box Saddle 2019
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–750 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy. Red pigment made from ochre was one of the first colors used in prehistoric art. The Ancient Egyptians and Mayans colored their faces red in ceremonies; Roman generals had their bodies colored red to celebrate victories. It was also an important color in China, where it was used to color early pottery and later the gates and walls of palaces. In the Renaissance, the brilliant red costumes for the nobility and wealthy were dyed with kermes and cochineal. The 19th century brought the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
