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With bills going nowhere in Congress, supporters want Biden to expand the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.

There are nearly 50 billion pieces of litter along U.S. roadways and waterways. L.A. group Pick Up While You Hike Up shares tips for lessening the litter load.

A group of friends walked all 25 miles of Sunset Boulevard in a day. Doing so reminded them of L.A. history and their own experiences on the winding street.

Some trails in the Angeles National Forest were closed for two years because of the 2020 fire.

The Bobcat fire in 2020 put areas of the Angeles National Forest off-limits. Now the forest is set to reopen in the spring.

Print Why hike in L.A.? There are as many answers as there are Angelenos who lace up boots and hit trails. Southern California’s mountains and forests can serve as an outdoor gym, a sanctuary from the urban buzz, a spiritual space to heal and reflect, a place to pose and be seen (especially on Instagram), an entry to the natural world of tarantulas and newts, and a place to scale an unthinkably high peak. For the devout, it’s a lifestyle choice that in nonpandemic times brings us closer as ...

Sign up here to get The Wild sent weekly to your inbox. Welcome to The Wild. Winter is an ideal time to explore the close-to-home front range of the Angeles National Forest. Josephine Peak would be a good place to start. It’s not particularly high, at 5,558 feet, but it offers spectacular views of Los Angeles, which can look like the Emerald City of Oz rising in the distance. Turning north toward the forest, you’ll see a vast quilt of canyons and high points in the San Gabriels, most promi...