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Yesterday we took advantage of a wide-open Sunday and took the kids up into the San Bernardino Mountains to enjoy a kid-friendly hike that I read about called the Heart Rock Trail. It starts in Crestline, California, and is just under a mile and a half round trip with the highlight being a beautiful heart shape in a large rock. If you catch it at the right time, which is probably Spring after a good rain, you can also see a waterfall flowing.
Heart Rock Trail
Heart Rock Trail is an easy to moderate 1.3-mile trail located near Crestline California in the San Bernardino Mountains just outside of Los Angeles. The parking and trailhead is located at 250 CA-138, Crestline, CA 92325.
You can click here to see where the trailhead starts.
How to Get To Heart Rock Trail
Please note that an adventure pass is required and you can purchase it online here for $5 : Southern California Daily Forest Adventure Pass
Traveling to Heart Rock Trail Crestline, California
Regardless of your starting point, you will have to navigate some winding mountain roads on your way to Heart Rock Trail. But the reward is some of the best views around!
We took the top off of the Jeep but silly me didn’t even think to check the weather forecast and we got showered by rain. To tell you the truth it felt so good. It never rains in the desert and I almost forgot what rain on a hot day feels like. Lucky for us the clouds parted for a good hour or so and we got our hike in!
Once we arrived, we quickly found a spot in the parking lot and made sure that our Adventure Pass was displayed.
The hike was beautiful and I highly suggest this hike to our local So Cal friends!
And on a side note… I have been learning so much myself in our homeschool journey. It feels so good to have my brain churning and teaching and talking with my kids. In both Abby and Jake’s Language Arts we have been talking about storytelling. We touched on topics and have been talking about details. I realized that I don’t notice them enough. It feels nice to look for them again and even better to write them down.
Hiking to Heart Rock Trail
Our skin felt sticky after the rain. The bugs were buzzing around my head. Make sure to bring bug spray. They didn’t bite but were quite pesky. The air smelled amazing. It brought me back to my childhood in Washington State. Everything was green and lush.
We saw a couple of families and a handful of couples. Several hikers had their four-legged friends with them and even saw a big group of Japanese Tourists. How fun that they choose to go there, out of all places in Southern California, and experience such a beautiful part of America.
It was fulfilling to see how easily the kids traversed the trail with little help from us. They are growing up and these adventures are truly enjoyable these days.
So, here are some photos from the rest of the hike and I hope that you are able to make it up there sometime!
The trail is very easy to follow so it’s fun to let the kids explore and even lead the way! There are some light rolling hills and going all of the way down to the sliding rock is optional.
