The Mountaineers Hiking Club

This is an alternate way of reaching the Arroyo Seco stream that hugs the popular Arroyo Seco/Gabrielino Trail. It takes you behind an upscale hillside neighborhood and an electricity substation, then quickly disappears into nature as it switchbacks downhill to a streamside campground. It is quieter and more exposed than the first stretch of the Arroyo Seco Trail in Altadena. The Gabrielino Trail is one of several in the Angeles National Forest designated as a multiuse national recreation trail. It follows the route of an original 1920s road that ran from Pasadena north up the canyon past wilderness resorts and old rustic cabins.