San Gorgonio Wilderness closed to hiking due to Valley Fire

bcrowell · Post by **bcrowell** » Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:19 am

Info:

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5900/

http://sgwa.org/

All the hiking trails in the San Gorgonio Wilderness are closed. I'm guessing the closure will end when they get the fire 100% contained. It's pretty insane the terrain the firefighters are having to work in -- this is right at the "Y" in the road where hwy 38 turns up to the left and the road to Forest Falls splits off to the right.

bcrowell · Post by **bcrowell** » Mon Jul 23, 2018 2:05 pm

The Big Bear Grizzly is reporting that the Valley Fire may smolder "until heavy rains or snow arrive this fall." Sounds like hiking trails are going to be closed for a matter of months. The penalty for going on the trails is $5000 and 6 months in jail.

http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/news/vall ... 66dd3.html

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5900/

bcrowell · Post by **bcrowell** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:21 pm

The fire is mostly contained, and it's now legal to hike some but not all of the trails in the San Gorgonio Wilderness:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sbnf/new ... EPRD591762

Vivian and South Fork are legal, but you can't do stuff to the south and west, such as Momyer.

Post by **dima** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 6:52 pm

Thanks for the reports. There were so many fires since this one, I completely forgotten this one happened at all.

bcrowell · Post by **bcrowell** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:34 pm

> There were so many fires since this one, I completely forgotten this one happened at all.

I know what you mean. I've been doing the same trail run over and over because it's the only one that's not on fire.

bcrowell · Post by **bcrowell** » Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:56 pm

They've ended the closure order: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5900/