Angeles Forest Highway
- mapped
- 31.3 mi
- mapped
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- 96
- motorcycle crashes, 2021–2025
- serious or fatal
- 34
- serious or fatal
- fatal
- 5
- fatal
Is Angeles Forest Highway open today?
Not a state route, so Caltrans doesn’t list it. No LA County closures listed.
Checked Sat, Nov 14, 12:10 PM Pacific. These lists don't include every closure: Forest Service gates and fire closures can be missing. All riding roads this week.
Is Angeles Forest Highway safe to ride on a motorcycle?
We don't rate roads as safe or unsafe: crash counts can't say how risky a road is, and popular riding roads have more crashes partly because more people ride them. What the records show: 96 motorcycle crashes were reported along its 31.3 mapped miles from 2021–2025, 34 of them serious or fatal (5 fatal). 81% involved no other vehicle. What to watch for: Higher speeds than the Crest and commuter traffic at peak hours. Crosswinds on exposed sections.
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Motorcycle crashes and deaths on Angeles Forest Highway
96 motorcycle crashes were reported within 60 m of the road from 2021–2025: 34 killed or seriously injured someone, and 5 were fatal. 81% involved no other vehicle. Busier roads have more crashes partly because more people ride them, so these counts don't say how risky the road is.
Bends, straights and junctions
Outside city limits, 98 motorcycle crashes were reported on Angeles Forest Highway from 2021–2026, 2 of them within 40 m of a junction. Of the other 96, 83 (86%) were in bends tighter than a 100 m radius, which make up 50% of the road. So crashes gather in the bends, more than their share of the road. 74 of the 83 crashes with no other vehicle were in bends.
A crash alone in a bend usually means running wide or losing grip: set your speed before the bend, look through it, and expect gravel, sand or diesel mid-corner.
Crashes with another vehicle in bends are often an oncoming car across the centre line: keep away from the centre line in blind bends.
The bends with the most crashes
- 16 crashes in one bend: 16 with no other vehicle, 1 of 1 on the grade going downhill; tightest radius about 80 m.
- 4 crashes in one bend: 4 with no other vehicle; tightest radius about 64 m.
- 3 crashes in one bend: 3 with no other vehicle, 0 of 1 on the grade going downhill; tightest radius about 88 m.
How we tell bends from straights, and every riding road compared
Camping near Angeles Forest Highway
Campgrounds and RV parks within about 5 miles of the road (straight line), nearest first. Seasons, fire restrictions and closures change, so check with whoever runs it before you go.
- Monte Cristo Campground3,569 ft · on the roadOn the map
- Pacifico Mountain Campground7,102 ft · 2.3 mi from the roadOn the map
- Lightning Point Campground (CLOSED)Group campground · Forest Service · 6 sites · 6,169 ft · 4.3 mi from the roadOn the mapReserve
- Messenger Flats5,872 ft · 4.8 mi from the roadOn the map
- Horse Flats Campground5,701 ft · 4.9 mi from the road · feeOn the map
Campgrounds from Recreation.gov (federal campgrounds, 2026-10-18) and OpenStreetMap (2026-09-28); water, toilets and showers only where they're listed. Elevation from USGS.
Rides that use this road
Common questions about Angeles Forest Highway
- What is Angeles Forest Highway like to ride?
- Faster, more open curves connecting La Cañada to Palmdale.
- How long is Angeles Forest Highway?
- About 31.3 miles as mapped in OpenStreetMap, for the stretch we cover.
- Is Angeles Forest Highway open today?
- As of Sat, Nov 14, 12:10 PM Pacific, no LA County closures are listed on it today. These lists don't include every closure (Forest Service gates and fire closures can be missing), so check Caltrans QuickMap before you go.
Other riding roads nearby
Crashes: motorcycle crashes reported within 60 m of the road, 2021–2025, from the California Crash Reporting System (CCRS). Road: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Weather: National Weather Service. Distances to other roads are between their middles, in a straight line. How the data works.