Winter Creek Trail can be combined with the ruggedly charming Mt. Wilson Toll Road and Old Mt. Wilson Trail. The classic climb is chronicled in a lively new book, “Sierra Madre’s Old Mount ...

Back at the bottom of the Mt. Wilson Trail, Spears and I pause at First Water, a grove about a mile-and-a-half up the trail that’s shaded by trees along a flowing, natural creek that’s still ...

Found at the southern end of the Angeles National Forest, the Mount Wilson Observatory houses around 50 buildings and several telescopes used by leading astronomers. ... Granite Creek, Bowler, ...

The Mount Wilson Observatory was once home to the world’s largest telescope, and more than a century ago, on Jan. 1, 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble made one of his most important discoveries at ...

Dating back to 1904, Mount Wilson Observatory was founded by Dr. George Ellery Hale in the mountains of Pasadena where some of the world's oldest telescopes are housed. When Hale established the ...