Plantation

Plantation is an easy, accessible hike of about 1.8 miles in the Mountaintop Ranger District of San Bernardino National Forest in California. The route rises roughly 250 feet from a low point of about 7,500 feet to a high of about 7,776 feet, and it is an out-and-back. The Forest Service manages the land. The trail is natural-surface and accessible. It is one of the closest trails to Boulder Group Camp, which sits just 0.1 mile away, and it makes a convenient pairing with the climbing at Nightmare Tower, about 0.2 mile off, and Sleepy Bear and Nightmare Towers, about 0.3 mile away. For comfortable weather, late spring and early fall are the sweet spots. Typical averages from a nearby Big Bear Lake weather station put May highs around 66°F and September highs around 73°F, while July reaches about 80°F. That station sits roughly 1,000 feet below the trail, so temperatures on the route run cooler. Big Bear Lake, about 2.4 miles away, is the closest lake fishing.