#diablo-range
7 trips tagged “diablo-range”
diablo-range backpacking at a glance
CaliPeaks documents 7 California backpacking routes tagged diablo-range, ranging from 1.6 to 14.2 miles with 250–3,040 feet of total climbing. Difficulty spans 3/100 (Easy) on Sierra View Camp up to 36/100 (Moderate) on Willow Ridge, which also carries the tag's biggest climb at 3,040 feet. All of these routes require a wilderness permit — each trip page links the booking window.
These routes cross Henry W. Coe State Park, and the months most of them share are February, March, April. Every stat below is cited on its trip page, so you can compare them like-for-like and follow any number back to the managing agency.
Sierra View Camp
Sierra View is Coe's front-porch camp: 0.8 miles from the visitor center to a ridgetop campsite with a view — the shortest designated backpa…
Frog Lake
Frog Lake is Coe's easiest backpacking loop: about 4.7 miles from the visitor center to a small pond in a quiet oak canyon, with modest roll…
Madrone Soda Springs
Madrone Soda Springs is Coe's forested creek camp: a 3.6-mile descent from the Coe Ranch ridge through oak and bay forest to a spring-fed fl…
Los Cruzeros
Los Cruzeros is where Coe's canyons meet — a creekside camp at the junction of the Middle Fork and its tributaries, 5.5 miles from the Coe R…
Willow Ridge
Willow Ridge is Coe's big-views backpack: 6.5 miles down through canyons and back up to a ridgetop camp with the Diablo Range rolling to eve…
Poverty Flat
Poverty Flat is Coe's roomiest creek camp: 3.6 miles and 1,600 feet down from the visitor center to the Middle Fork of Coyote Creek, with mo…
China Hole
China Hole is Coe's classic creek camp: 5.2 miles down from the Coe Ranch ridgetop to a swimming hole on the East Fork of Coyote Creek, unde…