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Big Bend Trail

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 2.5 (11)
  1. Areas
  2. CA
  3. …Southern California
  4. …Orange County
  5. Laguna Coast Wilderness Park
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“A steep trail jetting up the side of Laguna Canyon. ”

Phil Reyes
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1.6

Miles

2.6

KM
Doubletrack

909' 277 m

High

158' 48 m

Low

791' 241 m

Up

40' 12 m

Down

10%

Avg Grade (6°)

28%

Max Grade (16°)

Dogs No Dogs

E-Bikes Not Allowed

Description

Big Bend is a steep spur trail that jets up the side of Laguna Canyon from the lesser-used south parking lot of LCWP. It connects with Bommer Ridge at its mid-section. If you are climbing it, you'll experience the excitement of a couple of "false summits" if you don't look at your map. The trail is in OK condition, but it does have some deep ruts here-and-there. Bring lots of stamina to climb BB or lots of control to ride it down.

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Land Manager: Orange County, California - Parks

Shared By:

Phil Reyes with improvements by Erik Las
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Trail Ratings

  2.5 from 11 votes

#11

in Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

#36935

Overall
  2.5 from 11 votes
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Trail Rankings

#11

in Laguna Coast Wildernes…

#3,155

in California

#36,935

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Looking down into Laguna Canyon from Big Bend Trail at LCWP.
May 27, 2015 near Aliso V…, CA
Climbing up Big Bend Trail at LCWP. It's steeper than it looks!
May 27, 2015 near Laguna…, CA

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Nov 4, 2023
Travis Cook
I have no idea how anyone would climb this straight on a mtb — 3h 34m
Oct 18, 2020
Pablo H.
1.5mi
May 10, 2018
Andy Bedard
Really steep climb up to get to laguna ridge trail it looks like it would be fun to ride down as well. Parking lot right at the base 8am-5pm
Feb 11, 2018
Lindsay Newman

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