Having grown up in SoCal (West Covina), this is the road we used to take to go "up to the snow" in winter. We would only get rain in the LA Basin, but these mountains could get quite a bit of snow. One time my aunt drove us and my cousins up there in her blue Ambassador that had a luggage rack on the roof. We loaded the rack with snow, but on the way down, as the temps warmed, the snow began to melt and water started dripping inside the car. I also remember just wearing gym shoes to play in the snow. Socks would get soaked and your feet would be freezing. Good memories from the 70s.
Awesome memories! I’m from Whittier and remember the terms “up to the snow”. Or “up to the lake”. You knew what everybody meant when Monday came around and your little schoolmates would tell everyone what they did for the weekend. This was in the late 60’s.
I wish that I could give this a bazillion likes. I miss backpacking the East Fork, but don't regret leaving Calif for one second. Thank you for uploading this!
Another phenomenal drive, I don’t know how you find such great drives but I’m glad you’re showing us how magnificent and beautiful our country is, thank you.
Thanks! You do a great job and your videos are a source of relaxation for me. It's not much, but just a little sign of appreciation. I'm dreaming to visit the States for some road trips since a long time and it does not look like I will make it any time soon. Riding with you in your videos is just the next best thing to that. Keep up your good work. Looking forward to many more rides. May you have always safe travels and take care. Greetings from Switzerland.
Great video! I loved the scenic route you took. I wish I could do a driving tour there sometime. It would be amazing to explore those roads and share the experience with my viewers as well. Keep up the fantastic work!
Beautiful canyon, you picked a perfect day for the drive. The clouds over the mountaintops added an extra atmosphere to the area. Towards the last part before the road closure, you could see the crumbling rocks just waiting to fall. I think Big Sur suffers a similar fate. Thanks for sharing.
Big Sur certainly has its fair share of rock slides causing major damage. I believe portions of Big Sur on Route 1 were closed all summer due to road damage from last winter. Thanks for watching, happy to hear you liked the drive!
I've been a subscriber for quite a while, but this is my first comment. Please let me applaud your good work -- your video quality is excellent, as is your editing, as is your on-screen text, and so on. Here in the description and such, I truly appreciate how you've got chapters listed, chapter shortcuts all detailed out, and everything else. There are plenty of folks doing similar videos on UA-cam, but I sure think you have been doing it best. So, many thanks, and keep up the good work! Some of the areas in this video reminded me of that highway in the movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" -- but I looked it up, and that was on California State Route 74. That might be an idea, if you haven't gone through there, already. I would also be interested in seeing some "night" videos -- I remember some trips I took, through the desert on moonlit nights. I went from Las Vegas to Phoenix, crossing over Hoover Dam (before the bridge was built) right around midnight. That was one of the coolest drives I've done. Though I did another moonlit night drive, also from Las Vegas, but heading west towards Bakersfield. I'd be more than happy to see some videos in those kinds of conditions. Thanks again!
The bridge at 21:00 holds fond memories of a fall I took when I and 2 friends hiked under it. I was carrying an ice chest full of beer and slipped on the steep trail and landed on my back on a rock on the slope. I must have drove that canyon a hundred times. As a child I was a passenger all the way to highway 2 before the road was closed. Once around 1982 at night the 2 friends and I took a new Toyota small truck up to the top where the road is closed. Then we parked and hiked about 1/4 mile past and had a campfire in the closed road. At one point we heard a lot of hollering and smashing / breaking glass and realized the truck was being vandalized. We ran back to find a small fire lit on seat and windows broke out. We put the fire out and took off after them. After going for a few seconds the headlights went out as they were also smashed. Had to spend a cold night on that mountain. Good times!
For awhile it looked like CalTrans was considering the granting of custody of this highway above Crystal to the Forest Service to be converted to a hiking/equestrian trail, including the stretch of the SR-2 (Angeles Crest Highway) between Islip (junction with the 39) and Vincent Saddles. But now, CalTrans has changed their mind, they've received the targeted funding, so that now they've commenced preliminary work on reopening it to motor vehicles. There may also be advances in highway engineering techniques, that better address the issues of land-/rock-slides, slough-outs, and snow avalanches, that have plagued these two highways. Perhaps in 3 years then, you might be able to shoot a new sequence, including the stretch of the 2 all the way to Wrightwood and beyond. You could also then include the stretch of road to the desert, from Big Pine Pass.
That would be very nice. Honestly it would be kind of nice to have another route open from around Victorville down to the L.A. area when I-15 is jammed up.
Beautiful mountain area very close to LA. Hopefully they will manage to open the highway sometime, it is definetely a great drive, until CA 2 highway. Would love to drive there too, maybe they will open it until my next road trip in The USA. Thanks a lot, greetings from a road-tripper from Germany!
Absolutely beautiful. Couple of questions. How long will the road be open and do you know where the Mountains sit in relation to the San Andreas? Frequent land slides can be a sign of movement under the mountains. Would love to study the geology there and figure out why so many slides. :D
What is the right way to drive on these canyon roads with lot of ups and downs, without damaging engine or transmission? Is engine breaking safe, if done repeatedly over long rides, or is it better to just wear out the brakes since they are cheap to replace? Hybrid vehicles are best for these roads though, since regenerative braking can be used to slow down the vehicle while capturing the energy.
@ 22:00 minutes You drive past the San Gabriel Mountain Off Highway Vehicle Area on the right of the screen, A.K.A. Azusa Canyon. I spent many many Sundays down in the off road area having tons of fun watching people get stuck in the mud and wrecking their brand new trucks...
Your car must be very comfortable for you to drive so many places. I’m in the market for a new vehicle and am just wondering what you drive. Thank you 😊
Fantastic video with great driving. But can we spare a thought to the people who actually constructed this road? It's a marvel of engineering, quite mindboggling in fact to think it was all done in the 1950/60s.
We were surprised too. We drove Angeles Crest scenic highway a couple years ago and it was really busy with quite a few bikes. We did this drive on a weekday afternoon and the road in general was really quiet, not many cars at all.
The Forest Service has ordered the state to either repair the road or remove it completely and let nature take over. The state is trying to figure out a way to get out of doing either currently. There are Federally protected BigHorn sheep that live up there, which means the planning must take in account their presence.
Doubt they'll end up ripping that section out since it's important for emergency vehicles such as fire crews to access areas of the National Forest, and it's kept in a drivable state today for just that purpose. Hopefully they make the closed section back open to the public.
Having grown up in SoCal (West Covina), this is the road we used to take to go "up to the snow" in winter. We would only get rain in the LA Basin, but these mountains could get quite a bit of snow. One time my aunt drove us and my cousins up there in her blue Ambassador that had a luggage rack on the roof. We loaded the rack with snow, but on the way down, as the temps warmed, the snow began to melt and water started dripping inside the car. I also remember just wearing gym shoes to play in the snow. Socks would get soaked and your feet would be freezing. Good memories from the 70s.
I know what you mean!! I am from the San Gabriel Valley 😊
Good times and great memories! Love it! Thanks for sharing! ♥️
Awesome memories! I’m from Whittier and remember the terms “up to the snow”. Or “up to the lake”. You knew what everybody meant when Monday came around and your little schoolmates would tell everyone what they did for the weekend. This was in the late 60’s.
I wish that I could give this a bazillion likes. I miss backpacking the East Fork, but don't regret leaving Calif for one second.
Thank you for uploading this!
Thanks for riding along with us!
Another phenomenal drive, I don’t know how you find such great drives but I’m glad you’re showing us how magnificent and beautiful our country is, thank you.
Happy to share as much of America's natural beauty as we can! Glad you enjoy the scenic drives, thanks for watching!
Beautiful drive and highway.
Thank you. 😊😊😊.Look forward to your next drive. Be safe.
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I am native to there but gone for quite a few years. Most likely not returning. Azusa canyon was s great little getaway. Great drive! Thanks❤
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ThankYou very much... absolutely amazing.. Have a nice and blessed weekend and all the best...❤👌🙏
💙 Thanks so much, you too!
Nice scenic view, and nice roads and bridges too.
It’s hard to believe that just outside the second largest city in America there can be such a peaceful and beautiful place like that.
Thanks! You do a great job and your videos are a source of relaxation for me. It's not much, but just a little sign of appreciation. I'm dreaming to visit the States for some road trips since a long time and it does not look like I will make it any time soon. Riding with you in your videos is just the next best thing to that. Keep up your good work. Looking forward to many more rides. May you have always safe travels and take care. Greetings from Switzerland.
Thanks very much for your support! We’re happy to share the natural beauty with the world! ❤️
Great video! I loved the scenic route you took. I wish I could do a driving tour there sometime. It would be amazing to explore those roads and share the experience with my viewers as well. Keep up the fantastic work!
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Beautiful canyon, you picked a perfect day for the drive. The clouds over the mountaintops added an extra atmosphere to the area. Towards the last part before the road closure, you could see the crumbling rocks just waiting to fall. I think Big Sur suffers a similar fate. Thanks for sharing.
Big Sur certainly has its fair share of rock slides causing major damage. I believe portions of Big Sur on Route 1 were closed all summer due to road damage from last winter. Thanks for watching, happy to hear you liked the drive!
1:14:15 perfect spot on the left to cool off hidden on the trees with the river running there too
Beautiful spot to relax!
Another beautiful video. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much! Will do!
beautiful scenery
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I've been a subscriber for quite a while, but this is my first comment. Please let me applaud your good work -- your video quality is excellent, as is your editing, as is your on-screen text, and so on. Here in the description and such, I truly appreciate how you've got chapters listed, chapter shortcuts all detailed out, and everything else. There are plenty of folks doing similar videos on UA-cam, but I sure think you have been doing it best. So, many thanks, and keep up the good work!
Some of the areas in this video reminded me of that highway in the movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" -- but I looked it up, and that was on California State Route 74. That might be an idea, if you haven't gone through there, already. I would also be interested in seeing some "night" videos -- I remember some trips I took, through the desert on moonlit nights. I went from Las Vegas to Phoenix, crossing over Hoover Dam (before the bridge was built) right around midnight. That was one of the coolest drives I've done. Though I did another moonlit night drive, also from Las Vegas, but heading west towards Bakersfield. I'd be more than happy to see some videos in those kinds of conditions. Thanks again!
Thanks very much for the kind words! Happy to hear you enjoy what we do! Thanks for the advice as well!
The bridge at 21:00 holds fond memories of a fall I took when I and 2 friends hiked under it. I was carrying an ice chest full of beer and slipped on the steep trail and landed on my back on a rock on the slope. I must have drove that canyon a hundred times. As a child I was a passenger all the way to highway 2 before the road was closed. Once around 1982 at night the 2 friends and I took a new Toyota small truck up to the top where the road is closed. Then we parked and hiked about 1/4 mile past and had a campfire in the closed road. At one point we heard a lot of hollering and smashing / breaking glass and realized the truck was being vandalized. We ran back to find a small fire lit on seat and windows broke out. We put the fire out and took off after them. After going for a few seconds the headlights went out as they were also smashed. Had to spend a cold night on that mountain. Good times!
Sounds like good memories!
@@AdventureEveryDay Sounds to me that "Scott" & Co. luckily missed a DREADFUL confrontation with the vandals!!
For awhile it looked like CalTrans was considering the granting of custody of this highway above Crystal to the Forest Service to be converted to a hiking/equestrian trail, including the stretch of the SR-2 (Angeles Crest Highway) between Islip (junction with the 39) and Vincent Saddles. But now, CalTrans has changed their mind, they've received the targeted funding, so that now they've commenced preliminary work on reopening it to motor vehicles. There may also be advances in highway engineering techniques, that better address the issues of land-/rock-slides, slough-outs, and snow avalanches, that have plagued these two highways. Perhaps in 3 years then, you might be able to shoot a new sequence, including the stretch of the 2 all the way to Wrightwood and beyond. You could also then include the stretch of road to the desert, from Big Pine Pass.
That would be very nice. Honestly it would be kind of nice to have another route open from around Victorville down to the L.A. area when I-15 is jammed up.
Beautiful video! Trip is awesome!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks I used to stay Down that route, I drove up the mountains every time I needed serenity
It's a great area to escape the craziness of the city and enjoy nature. Thanks for watching!
Now that is a beautiful place to visit.
Have yu driven there?
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I've always thought it was interesting how Azusa got its name. It's a town that "Has everything from A to Z in the USA" !!
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Spectacular driving! Thank you for sharing!
We love to drive 👍
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Beautiful mountain area very close to LA. Hopefully they will manage to open the highway sometime, it is definetely a great drive, until CA 2 highway. Would love to drive there too, maybe they will open it until my next road trip in The USA. Thanks a lot, greetings from a road-tripper from Germany!
Hopefully someday soon they'll get the entire route reopened! We've heard rumors there may be some plans in the works for that.
@@AdventureEveryDay not just for tourism and leisure, but this road can improve response times for brush fires in the area.
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Очень приятно слышать, что вы наслаждаетесь прекрасными пейзажами! Большое спасибо за просмотр!
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Wonderful road video and it is a fantastic road for sure. Thanks for sharing and take care.
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely, you are welcome.
I walk the closed section of Old Highway 80 in San Diego County. We took this road to the mountains. I’m always amazed at how narrow it is.
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Beautiful scenery
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I've made that drive many times. Love it up there.
If we lived closer we would drive this route a lot. The views are outstanding the entire way!
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Senang Anda menikmatinya! Terima kasih telah berkendara bersama kami!
Absolutely beautiful. Couple of questions. How long will the road be open and do you know where the Mountains sit in relation to the San Andreas? Frequent land slides can be a sign of movement under the mountains. Would love to study the geology there and figure out why so many slides. :D
The fault line run along the north side of the San Gabriel mountain ranch and the Mojave desert.
thank you :D
00:10 This reminds us of some of our Amazing Drives! Fantastic 👍
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I remember the when the posted speed limit was 55 MPH. So much fun.
That’s about how fast a lot of other people seemed to want to drive when we recorded this.
cool drive . very scenic
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As a SoCal kid (Whittier) in the 50s, Hwy. 39 was the "mountains" in one direction and the beach (Huntington) in the other.
So cool to have the 2 contrasting areas so close to each other. Love visiting SoCal.
Love this channel.
Beautiful road and scenery! I thought America was all the Great Plains
There's so much amazing scenery in America, and so many different types of landscapes to enjoy!
California So beautiful 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Totally agree
What is the right way to drive on these canyon roads with lot of ups and downs, without damaging engine or transmission? Is engine breaking safe, if done repeatedly over long rides, or is it better to just wear out the brakes since they are cheap to replace?
Hybrid vehicles are best for these roads though, since regenerative braking can be used to slow down the vehicle while capturing the energy.
@ 22:00 minutes You drive past the San Gabriel Mountain Off Highway Vehicle Area on the right of the screen, A.K.A. Azusa Canyon. I spent many many Sundays down in the off road area having tons of fun watching people get stuck in the mud and wrecking their brand new trucks...
We saw the sign for that area and wished we had something more off road worthy than a Q5 available to explore the area.
@@AdventureEveryDay Thanks for Your response and the video. I don't live in So. Cal. anymore and do miss home.
Nice drive
Indeed. You should see the Alaska Highway 👍
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Your car must be very comfortable for you to drive so many places. I’m in the market for a new vehicle and am just wondering what you drive. Thank you 😊
Fantastic video with great driving. But can we spare a thought to the people who actually constructed this road? It's a marvel of engineering, quite mindboggling in fact to think it was all done in the 1950/60s.
Just imagine riding a 🚲 down this 🛣️.😅
done it many times.
A bike ride would be incredible through the San Gabriel Canyon!
Jolie paysage américain je suis francais
Merci d'avoir roulé avec nous !
Didn’t watch every minute but I’m surprised you didn’t see any cyclists - that’s a popular ride for us SoCal locals.
We were surprised too. We drove Angeles Crest scenic highway a couple years ago and it was really busy with quite a few bikes. We did this drive on a weekday afternoon and the road in general was really quiet, not many cars at all.
muito bonito maravilhoso
Obrigado!
So the closed road is still in arguably driveable condition...but the risk of rock slides are so great thats its probably safer to close the thing
San Gabriel canyon road would be one of the best driving roads on earth if it were returned to good shape and reopened
Can you tell me the camera you are using? The videos are beautiful
Why build a road through the mountains and then close it because of rock slides? There's FAR worse roads in the US they keep open.
Hopefully they get it reopened and can keep rocks off the road surface
Doesn’t look closed here.
It’s closed at the northern end. You can walk the closed area and rode bicycles, but the road is closed to vehicles.
How did you manage to get on it? @@AdventureEveryDay
You can ride a bicycle on the closed section, I have.
You certainly can. We wished we’d had one when we drove up there.
@@AdventureEveryDay Cheers!
*E.XCELLENT @NORMAL SPEED....✍🏿🇻🇨🇬🇧
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The Forest Service has ordered the state to either repair the road or remove it completely and let nature take over. The state is trying to figure out a way to get out of doing either currently. There are Federally protected BigHorn sheep that live up there, which means the planning must take in account their presence.
Doubt they'll end up ripping that section out since it's important for emergency vehicles such as fire crews to access areas of the National Forest, and it's kept in a drivable state today for just that purpose. Hopefully they make the closed section back open to the public.
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should have the Boring Project
Nice n' Moist
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Why can’t we ease up on the speed? It’s not a freeway for damn sake! Not to mention all the wild life we put in danger!
How about little talking now and then!