Cogswell Dam, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

Name: Cogswell Dam
Address: San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, United States

#13 among attractions in San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

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Cogswell Dam, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

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Cogswell Dam is a rockfill dam on the West Fork of the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California. It is located in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Mount Wilson, and within the Angeles National Forest. ()

Opened: 1935 (89 years ago)Length: 585 ftHeight: 280 ftReservoir area: 146 acres (0.2281 mi²)Coordinates: 34°14'42"N, 117°57'54"W

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Cogswell Dam – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mount Wilson, Silver Moccasin Trail, Mount Wilson Toll Road, Vetter Mountain.

5.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Wilson, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
145 min walk • Mount Wilson is a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California.
5 miNW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Silver Moccasin Trail, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
127 min walk • The Silver Moccasin Trail is a 53-mile trail located in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles. It begins at Chantry Flat Recreation Area above the city of Arcadia, California, traversing upward and down through several canyons and along the high ridges of the Angeles National Forest. This trail connects Mt.
6 miSW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Mount Wilson Toll Road, Angeles National Forest
154 min walk • The Mount Wilson Toll Road is a historic roadway which ascended Mount Wilson via a vehicular passable road from the base of the foothills in Altadena.
5.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Vetter Mountain, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
131 min walk • Vetter Mountain is located in the San Gabriel Mountains and within the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California. Elevation 5,911 feet feet. Named by USFS surveyor Don McLain for Victor P. Vetter, a dedicated forest ranger and fire dispatcher. Vetter won the USFS Bissell Medal for outstanding work in forest conservation.
5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Fish Canyon Falls, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
127 min walk • Fish Canyon Falls is a tiered waterfall in Los Angeles County, California, located within the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains. The falls are located about 2 miles northwest of Azusa on the Fish Canyon Creek.
4.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Chantry Flat, Angeles National Forest
121 min walk • Chantry Flat is a designated "Recreation Area" within the Angeles National Forest, about three miles into Big Santa Anita Canyon, and is closely associated with the towns of Arcadia and Sierra Madre, CA.
6.8 miSE
Dam
Morris Dam, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
174 min walk • Morris Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the San Gabriel River in the U.S. state of California. It impounds Morris Reservoir, directly downstream of San Gabriel Dam.
4.6 miW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Gabrielino Trail, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
119 min walk • The Gabrielino Trail is a United States National Recreation Trail that runs through the Angeles National Forest with trailheads at Windsor Avenue in Altadena, California on the west end and Chantry Flat, just north of Arcadia, California, on the east.
4.3 miNW
Observatories and planetariums
Stony Ridge Observatory, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
111 min walk • Stony Ridge Observatory is an astronomical observatory built by and for amateur astronomers in the mountains of Los Angeles County, California, in 1957.
7.4 miSW
Church
Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Sierra Madre
189 min walk • The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre, California is an historic church that was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is site #7 on Sierra Madre designated historical landmarks list.
2.5 miNE
National park
San Gabriel Wilderness
64 min walk • The San Gabriel Wilderness is a wilderness area created in 1968 of more than 36,118 acres within the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.