North Fork Saddle
North Fork Saddle is a picnic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,273 m. Pacifico Mountain stands 2,165 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Quail Spring, a spring 1.8 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 18 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 17.7 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Iron Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Messenger Peak: 3.1 mi
- Mount McKinley: 3.4 mi
- Mount Gleason: 4.3 mi
- Magic Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Cypress Park: 3.6 mi
- Soledad Sands Park: 4.8 mi
- Acton Park: 6.6 mi
- Vasquez Rocks Park: 7.4 mi
- Stonecrest Park: 8.5 mi
- BLM Open Space: 4.5 mi
- Angeles National Forest: 4.7 mi
- BLM Open Space: 5.3 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 5.3 mi
- BLM Open Space: 5.4 mi
- Acton Community Presbyterian Church: 6.6 mi
- American Graphite Mine: 7.4 mi
- Sylias Hoyt Homestead: 7.9 mi
- Switzer Camp: 10.5 mi
- Tuna Canyon Detention Station: 10.7 mi
- Vasquez Rocks Natural Area and Nature Center: 8.0 mi
- Bolton Hall: 9.5 mi
- Discovery Cube Science Center: 11.3 mi
- Placerita Canyon Nature Center: 12.3 mi
- Casa de López: 13.1 mi
- The Redoubt: 9.2 mi
- Elephant Bush: 9.6 mi
- Dos Picos: 10.6 mi
- Our Community in the Foothills: 11.3 mi
- Canyon Dreamscape: 11.7 mi
- Howard Finn Community Garden: 9.3 mi
- Sunland Community Garden: 9.8 mi
- Sunland Community Garden: 9.8 mi
- El Cariso Mountain Garden: 10.3 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 12.0 mi
- Abandoned Oil Rigs: 10.6 mi
- Burbank Christmas Tree: 13.1 mi
- Enchanted Railroad: 13.1 mi
- Convento: 14.3 mi
- Letter "H": 14.4 mi
- Quail Spring: 1.8 mi
- Magnetic Springs: 3.0 mi
- Yerba Buena Spring: 3.4 mi
- Deer Spring: 4.1 mi
- Indian Springs: 5.9 mi
- Wildwood Picnic: 6.5 mi
- Stonyvale Picnic Area: 7.3 mi
- Hidden Springs: 8.3 mi
- Switzer Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
- Paul Little: 11.2 mi
- Trail Canyon Falls: 4.6 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls: 10.5 mi
- Lower Switzer Falls: 10.7 mi
- Royal Falls: 11.0 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 11.1 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 10.5 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.0 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.4 mi
- Mentryville: 20.5 mi
- Spa Palace: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.9 miles of North Fork Saddle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacifico Mountain | E 92° | 2,165 m | 12.4 mi |
| Granite Mountain | E 96° | 1,998 m | 10.4 mi |
| Mount Gleason | E 100° | 1,990 m | 4.3 mi |
| Bare Mountain | E 87° | 1,937 m | 14.9 mi |
| Roundtop | ESE 103° | 1,908 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mount Hillyer | E 101° | 1,881 m | 13.8 mi |
| Strawberry Peak | SE 134° | 1,879 m | 10.4 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | SE 139° | 1,878 m | 13.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:32 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:09 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 56 | 57 | 59 | 62 | 66 | 70 | 76 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 61 | 55 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burbank Glendale Pasadena AP, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/347079597
Day trips start here
- Angeles National Forest · 8 mi
- Glendale · 14 mi
- La Cañada Flintridge · 14 mi
- Burbank · 15 mi
- Santa Clarita · 15 mi
- Santa Clarita Valley · 15 mi
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