Big Bear Lake
Champion Lodgepole Pine & Siberia Creek
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From Forest Road 2N11 to Champion Lodgepole Pine is 1 mile round trip with 100-foot loss; to The Gunsight is 3 miles round trip with 600-foot loss; to Siberia Creek Trail Camp is 8 miles round trip with 2,500-foot loss.
Siberia Creek Trail
California nurtures some superlative trees. The tallest tree on Earth is a coast redwood, the oldest tree a bristlecone pine. And in the San Bernardino Mountains grows the world champion lodgepole pine.
It's a pleasant stroll, suitable for the whole family, to the world champion. More ambitious hikers will enjoy tramping down Siberia Creek Trail to the appropriately named rock formation "The Gunsight," and on to Siberia Creek Trail Camp for a picnic.
Siberia Creek, born atop the high mountains near Big Bear Lake, is a delightful watercourse. It flows southwest through a deep coniferous forest and lush meadowlands, then cascades down a steep rocky gorge and adds it waters to Bear Creek.
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Grand View Point
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Aspen Glen Picnic Area to Grand View Point is 6.5 miles round trip with 1,200-foot elevation gain.
Pine Knot Trail
Rim of the World Highway offers the traveler a fine view of Big Bear Lake. A better view, a hiker's view, is available from Pine Knot Trail, which climbs the handsome, pine-studded slopes above the lake and offers far-reaching panoramas of the San Bernardino Mountains.
Big Bear Lake is a great place to escape the crowded metropolis, and Pine Knot Trail is a great way to escape sometimes-crowded Big Bear Lake.
The idea for Big Bear Lake came from Redlands citrus growers, who wanted to impound a dependable water source for their crops. Farmers and city founders formed Bear Valley Land and Water Co. and in 1884, at a cost of $75,000, built a stone-and-cement dam, thus forming Big Bear Lake. In 1910 a second, larger dame was built near the first one. This second dam is the one you see today.
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