Bonita Falls Trail is a 1.5 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Lytle Creek, California that features a waterfall and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, nature trips, and birding and is best used from March until October. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
dogs on leash
kid friendly
birding
hiking
nature trips
walking
forest
river
views
waterfall
wild flowers
wildlife
over grown
rocky
Remember to stop at the Ranger Station or AMPM for your daily parking pass- $5.
Make sure to take a carrier for your toddler or baby. We had to cross a rocky dried up river bed, then go up hill for about 1/4 mile. It can get pretty steep in some areas. The water fall was beautiful and worth the hike.
Getting to the waterfall was definitely worth the hike. Lots of rocks to walk over so you have to be careful. The walk to the waterfall was really cool because there were little creeks you can dip your feet in. The waterfall area was kind of small so you can't hang out for too long. Still pretty nonetheless!
Fun hike just lots of trash
It's a nice short hike, but an extreme amount of graffiti & lots of trash. Wouldn't go back
The falls are awesome, it's super tall and had a lot of water when we went in June. Lots of graffiti. We used our own trash bags we had on hand to gather trash out of the trail to the trash cans at the start of the hike. Lots of people and easy hike. Not a moment of solace kind of hike, which is why I give three stars. More like a Disneyland hike. Pretty short, not hard to get to but worth the trip and super cool for kids to see and get used to hiking and be happy to have found a cool waterfall in the hills. If you go past the small canyon where the falls are to the next little inlet to the left, there's another smaller falls and a great natural water slide. Be careful there though, if you break your ankle you'll need to be choppered out. It's a much harder hike with some bouldering required. The water slide was about an hour of fun for us. If you throw trash on the trail you're a jackass.
Easy hike, rocky start and incline finish to the waterfall. Didn't mind the graffiti but didn't like some of the trash. Good hike overall sweet spot for cool pictures and a couple hours to kill. Buy your parking permit at the ranger station before you hit the trail. it's five bucks just walk in ask for one, real easy, avoid the ticket
Where do you purchase the passes
Yes , get your pass otherwise you will get a ticket...
This is where my family would celebrate Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day. Today was another lovely Labor Day. I love to see how families come together. A lot of young beautiful families enjoyed nature. Yes a lot more can be done about keeping the place clean. The families around us were making sure to pick up their water bottles & trash. We should learn to share space
I would have rated this higher, as it was a fun little hike with a nice, rocky trail (all riverbed rock) and a surprisingly pretty waterfall at the top, but it is impossible to ignore the trash and graffiti that covers everything! Beer boxes, dirty diapers and wrappers of every kind littered the entire trail. Signs, rocks, trees and around the falls covered in disgusting gang tags. Every bit of creek shoreline used by day campers with gang rap blaring. I have hiked many trails in various states and was painfully reminded, the entire time, of why I hate hiking in So Cal. Never again! Totally ghetto!
Awesome hike to the falls. Through the river bed in rocks and up the mountain. Bring bug spray
It's a good and short hike ;)