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🥾 Pacific Crest Trail

Trail📍 California
Cost of access
Free (long-distance permit free but required)

2,650 mi from Mexico to Canada along the Sierra and Cascades.

⛺ Camping🥾 Hiking🐎 Horseback Riding
Amenities: Not documented — check the official site.
🧭 Navigate there
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Fees and rules change — always confirm with the managing agency. Public land ≠ unlimited harvest: state licenses apply for hunting/fishing, and foraging rules vary by unit.

🧭 Keep exploring nearby

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The closest public places to Pacific Crest Trail, straight-line distance.

5 mi away · State / Public Land
🗺️ Hauser Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Unknown — check official site
11 mi away · State / Public Land
🗺️ Hauser Wilderness
Unknown — check official site
15 mi away · State / Public Land
🗺️ Pine Creek Wilderness
Unknown — check official site
16 mi away · State / Public Land
🗺️ Carrizo Gorge Wilderness Study Area
Unknown — check official site
16 mi away · State / Public Land
🗺️ Carrizo Gorge Wilderness
Unknown — check official site
19 mi away · Wildlife Mgmt Area
🦆 Jacumba National Cooperative Land and Wildlife Management Area
Unknown — check official site
20 mi away · State / Public Land
🗺️ Table Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Unknown — check official site
22 mi away · State / Public Land
🗺️ Otay Mountain Wilderness
Unknown — check official site

📋 Standard rules — Trails

The publicly posted baseline for this land type. Individual units add their own rules — the official page ↗ always controls.

  • Stay on the treadway; yield per posted rules (bikes yield to hikers/horses; everyone yields to horses)
  • Camping only at designated sites/shelters on most long trails