Mount Lowe Trail is a 8 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near San Luis Obispo, California that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
January 18, 2021Hike #3
January 18, 2021Fantastic! Amazing views. Wide range of vistas , wildlife, and flora. Well worth it. You have to climb over a fence to begin hike, kind of odd. The whole thing is up a gravel access road, but still a nice trek.
January 17, 2021
January 16, 2021January 16, 2021January 2, 2021December 30, 2020December 27, 2020Nice trail and good views at the top. More of a road so not too challenging. The Google directions are totally accurate, parking is right on the 101
December 19, 2020beautiful
December 5, 2020November 23, 2020This dirt road must have had many uses over the years. It is an access road for various antennas high up on ridge, power lines, probably old fire road, etc. Lopez Canyon Trailhead is directly behind second antenna station. Try it in various seasons. Great in early AM and for sunsets. Look out for mountain bikers coming fast back down. Views and flora are best starting 30 minutes up at national forest boundary. About 1:20 brisk walk to second antenna station ("top").
November 1, 2020Nice hike. Not very shady, so recommend going early or when temps drop a little more. Not many people on the trail, mostly bikers. We were able to let our dogs off the leash, which is our favorite kind of hike - All other dogs we saw were also off leash, too. Trail is just a dirt road that leads up to some communication towers. Personally, I thought the best view was at the Los Padres NF sign- in hind sight, we could have turned around then. Overall, decent hike.
October 24, 2020love it!
October 24, 2020It was a moderate hike. Some sections were washed out making it difficult to get to camp.
October 24, 2020Car got broken into at trailhead. Be careful
October 11, 2020As of October 9th 2020 all hiking trails in Santa Lucia ranger district are open.
August 28, 2020On a clear day this hike provides some of the best vista of SLO and central coast south.
August 11, 2020felt more like a long walk rather than a hike, but great views!! SLO County never fails to impress
August 2, 2020good hike
July 15, 2020Really nice hike/walk! Very wide truck route and not so steep - took us about 2.5 hours to do 8 miles. Go early in the morning before it gets too hot because there isn’t much shade.
May 30, 2020Did the hike yesterday afternoon. Started around 3:15. Was a long mellow hike uphill on a wide dirt service road. The runoff troughs in the road every few hundred yards were a tad annoying. It was foggy and windy towards the top. Almost got lost at fork in the road near the top (phone died) but I guessed the right way and found the microwave tower on top ok. Stayed about 5 minutes. Couldn’t see the view and it was raining. I picked the wrong day to do this hike. I’d do it again.
May 29, 2020The trail is basically a gravel road all the way to the top. It’s a long walk with a consistent incline. The views would be amazing on a clear day, but it was very cloudy and misty today. Even with the poor weather this hike was very interesting due to the beauty of the varied trees and plants along the trail. Pine trees with pine cones as big as pineapples, pacific madrona trees with their unique bark, California sycamore trees and many other interesting plants and shrubs.
May 15, 2020Private property first 2 miles. Then national forest. About 1.6 miles in, pine trees are growing :-)
April 14, 2020April 10, 2020beautiful hike mostly road but plenty of opportunities to go off on your own path. love it...did it in the rain and it was very majestic.
April 6, 2020Foggy
March 21, 2020This is a nice trail. It is a fire road with a gradual incline with lovely oak trees at the beginning and eventually great views of the 9 Sisters and the Santa Lucia wilderness. It is located at the top of the cuesta grade. You have hop a fence to get onto the trail/road.
February 12, 2020well maintained. trail is wide enough to drive up. very impressive views to the south west. not too difficult. quite a bit of dog mess. watch where you step.
February 3, 2020I loved this hike. It had the perfect incline. I did 10 miles. No complaints at all. Parking is right off of the freeway on the right side.
February 1, 2020No brainers walk that requires little effort except the distance. The hardest part if this hike is getting to the trailhead from 101NB. Love the view out to Morro Rock.
