If sipping martinis and strolling through the Getty's newly improved Central Garden is too stuffy for your taste, the Angeles National Forest is announcing a reopening for Memorial Day weekend too. About 41,000 acres will be open for hiking, picnicking and camping. more ›

The body of 76-year-old Henry "Dick" DeRusha has been retrieved from Angeles National Forest, reports ABC7. The hiker was first reported missing on Monday by his son, when he determined his elderly father had not come back from the excursion he'd begun on Friday. more ›

If you were hoping to spend more time exploring our National Forests, but got turned off by having to pay admission fees to just walk around, park, or take some photos, the Forest Service is about to make your next visit potentially more affordable. more ›

A ruling released earlier this month by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of four hikers who objected to having to pay a fee to visit a National Forest, and this could find visitors relieved of having to pay daily or annual fees to simply visit the land. more ›

One man is dead and two others are seriously injured after their car tumbled 500 feet off the side of the Angeles Crest Highway into a ravine in the Angeles National Forest. One of the injured men was able to climb back up to the road and flag down help, but it was too late for one man pronounced dead at the scene. more ›

Deputies announced today that they found some interesting clues: it appears that the skeleton—whose gender is still undetermined—had a gunshot wound to the skull, and there was a handgun nearby. more ›

If a lack of money was your excuse for refusing a hiking invitation this weekend, you'll have to use your backup reason. In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which falls on Monday, January 16, the Angeles National Forest will waive fees for visitors. more ›

Last night was prime viewing for the Geminid meteor showers, and one local man managed to get himself injured in a car accident in his pursuit to take in the celestial sight. more ›

This weekend begs you to get out and head to Angeles National Forest, Angelenos. Veterans Day falls on Friday, November 11, and in honor of those who have served and who currently serve our country, the normally required National Forest Adventure Pass will be waived. more ›

LAPD detectives are investigating a tip they got this week that someone had buried a dead baby in the Angeles National Forest way back in 2010. The death was never reported until now. Detectives know that the baby died while in the care of its parents, but they don't know how. It was 6 weeks old at the time of its death. more ›

Last week, the family of 67-year-old David Lavau located their loved one alive and surviving on bugs and leaves at the base of a ravine in Castaic. His vehicle had plunged off a mountain road a week earlier, and was located near a second vehicle that contained the body of a deceased male. Now authorities are hoping to identify the body, and that man's relatives believe he is missing Palms resident Melvin Gelfand. more ›

An elderly man missing for several days has been found and is hospitalized for several injuries sustained when his vehicle plunged off a mountain road in Angeles National Forest. 67-year-old David Lavau had been stranded at the base of a ravine for about six days, and sustained himself by eating bugs and leaves washed down by water from a creek. more ›

Strap on those hiking boots and head to Angeles National Forest this Saturday, September 24. In honor of National Public Lands Day, the forest is offering visitors a "Fee Free" day by waiving the Adventure Pass for daytime activities. more ›

Last week a rescue team was called in to airlift a trio of hikers clinging to a cliff in Eaton Canyon. A video from the Air 5 rescue team captured the rescue. more ›

Labor Day campers at the Angeles National Forest failed to leave only footprints over the holiday weekend. The aftermath of their lazy disregard for the environment may infect L.A. drinking water. more ›

Six late-night hikers, who got lost on the Sunset Ridge Trail last night, were rescued this morning, according to the Pasadena Star-News. Four men and two women called for help at 2:30 a.m., because they had gotten lost on the trail. more ›

Three Los Angeles men ages 32, 45 and 50 have gone missing in the Angeles National Forest. The men embarked on a hike in the Devil's Canyon-Mt. Waterman area of the San Gabriel Mountains around 9am on Sunday and planned to return by 5pm or 6pm that day, according to L.A. Now. more ›

This has been a deadly summer for hikers ascending to the upper waterfalls at Eaton Canyon Park, prompting officials to warn hikers to know their limits when they go up against Mother Nature. Altadena Patch has started a discussion about whether there is anything else that the public can do to keep hikers out of harm's way at the alluring but deadly hike to the upper waterfalls at Eaton Canyon. more ›

It didn't take long after the Angeles Crest Highway reopened in June for not two, not three but four drivers to lose their lives on the road. After the third death, Caltrans launched an investigation into those deaths to assess whether signage, traffic enforcement and traffic volume could have played a role in those fatal crashes. The agency found that it is the drivers — and not the road — that are dangerous according to The Burbank Leader. more ›

Saturday afternoon's fatal car accident along a stretch of Angeles Crest Highway is the fourth death since the road reopened in June following repairs from the Station Fire, says LA Now. more ›

The recent deaths of two hikers at Eaton Canyon Park in the Angeles National Forest have prompted a warning from officials, reports L.A. Now. L.A. Sheriff's Sergeant Debra Herman noted that people often underestimate the power of Mother Nature, hiking on trails well beyond their skill level. more ›

A 46-year-old man weighing in at over 300 pounds fell or dove into the San Gabriel River in the Angeles National Forest yesterday. He was reportedly drinking alcohol with friends, according to The Daily Breeze. more ›

Already sitting more than a mile above sea level, Wrightwood, CA offers Mountain High ski resort, close proximity to Mt. Baldy, and about 4,000 hardy full-time residents. So what, exactly, is there to do in this mile-high mountain town when the winter powder melts away? Surprisingly, the answer is: go higher. more ›

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has announced that homicide detectives were dispatched at 7:30 this morning to investigate the death of a Caucasian woman on Upper Big Tujunga Canyon Road in the Angeles National Forest. No other information about the victim or the circumstances surrounding her death has been released. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau more ›

Closed for nearly 18 months following the Station Fire, the newly reopened section of Angeles Crest Highway registered two fatal accidents on Friday, according to L.A. Now and 818 Now. more ›

Officials opened a 7-mile stretch of Angeles Crest Highway on Friday that had been closed for nearly 18 months. Much of the 66-mile highway that extends north from the 2 freeway in La Canada-Flintridge through Angeles National Forest to Wrightwood had been closed after January 2000 mudslides in the Station Fire area badly damaged sections of the road. more ›

The body discovered yesterday in the Chantry Flats area of the Angeles National Forest has been confirmed as being that of 53-year-old Kevin Pochter, the man suspected of killing his longtime friend, 53-year-old Dean Ron Albert, according to the Associated Press. Pochter's body was found "on Monday morning about six miles from Mount Wilson," and a handgun was found close by. more ›

Homicide detectives are seeking clues in the shooting death of a man at Chantry Flats Campground in Angeles National Forest north of Arcadia Thursday night. A passerby reported seeing a wounded man collapsed on the road to authorities around 5:40 p.m. The man transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. more ›

The Angeles National Forest is still painfully scarred from the devastating 2009 Station Fire, and today comes word from the U.S. Forest Service that a project will find 3 million pine and fir trees planted in a 10,000-acre region over the next five years. As part of what is being hailed as "the first ecological response" to the massive blaze, those incoming trees will "offset greenhouse-gas emissions from a refinery in El Segundo," according to the LA Times. more ›