Bailey Trail
California
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4.5 mi
Distance
3,509 ft
Gain
2h 20m
Time
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What we do know
Inside Los Padres National Forest
3 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.
Boundary data
What's missing
No access route mapped
We don't yet know which road reaches this trailhead, so we can't tell you if it's gated.
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Why you'll love it
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Bailey Trail
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Elevation & route
- Distance
- 4.5 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,509 ft
- Elevation loss
- 3,509 ft
- Highest point
- 3,580 ft
- Lowest point
- 2,598 ft
Photos
Directions & GPX
Permits & access
- Managing agency
- Forest Service
About this trail
Bailey Trail is an 8.94-mile out-and-back hike in California with 3,509 feet of elevation gain and loss. The trail reaches a maximum elevation of 3,580 feet.
Facts about this trail
The climb
- Starts at
- 2,742 ft
- High point
- 3,580 ft
- Total climbing
- 3,509 ft
- Total descent
- 3,509 ft
- Steepest stretch
- 34% grade around mile 0.5 on the way out
- Length (round trip)
- 8.9 mi
- Shape
- Out and back
Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)
Where it is
- Sespe Wilderness · Wilderness
- Mt. Pinos Ranger District · Ranger district
- Los Padres National Forest · National forest
- Managed by
- Forest Service
Source: Wilderness.net boundaries; USFS EDW boundaries; USGS PAD-US 4.1
Conditions
Active alerts for Mt. Pinos Ranger District as of Oct 9, 2026:
Dry Canyon Area, Roads and Trails, and Wilderness Closure
information · posted Aug 24, 2026
Source: USFS forest alerts
Nearby
- Buck Creek TrailHiking0.2 mi
- Beartrail TrailHiking2.3 mi
- Los Alamos Group CampgroundCamping2.9 mi
- Los AlamosCamping2.9 mi
- Pyramid Lake - Emigrant Landing Day Use AreaPier fishing3.5 mi
- Piru CreekCanoeing5.5 mi
- Conglomerate Boulders (Templin boulders)Rock climbing5.6 mi
- Conglomerate Boulders (Templin boulders) - misc problemsRock climbing5.6 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
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