Mountain ridges and pine trees in Angeles National forest

Take Angeles National Forest Scenic Route and Capture Beautiful Mountain Pictures

Angeles National Forest, California, USA

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Angeles National Forest’s scenic route follows the ridge of the San Gabriel Mountains that overlook greater Los Angeles. This scenic drive is so close to the big city, yet not many tourists venture to take this California road trip into the mountains.

Large tree in the Angeles National Forest
Angeles National Forest Scenic Route is a great California road trip idea
Angeles Crest scenic drive
Scenic Route in San Gabriel Mountains

 Angeles Crest Scenic Drive Photo Gallery

Angeles National Forest is a nature preservation area and is a great place to enjoy the great outdoors and practice nature photography. In this post, FPImages offers 20 mountain pictures taken while driving along Angels Crest Highway.

Forest detail picture of a fallen tree and flowers
Mountain Forest Detail – dark old log and soft grass
Blue color natural gradient in the mountain photo
Panoramic mountain landscape in shades of blue colors

Angeles National Forest scenic route is a famous mountain road – Angeles Crest Highway. This scenic drive has many places to stop and enjoy the view of the mountains. As usual with nature pictures, the best time for impressive and dramatic photos is sunrise and sunset.

Plan this California road trip at those special times and you will without a doubt add some beautiful mountain pictures to your photo gallery. Mountain landscapes are beautiful and can serve as a desktop background.

Dry grass flowers contrasting with the mountains
Beautiful landscape in the Angeles National Forest
Pine cones on a large pine tree
A pine tree full of pine cones

Angeles National Forest scenic route is a breathtaking California road trip. Just make sure you check for road closures and weather alerts. Angeles Crest Highway climbs to over 8,000 feet and weather up there could be quite different from the valley below.

Also, make sure you have enough gas as there will be no services in the mountains and cell phone coverage is very spotty. Plan your road trip, and you will enjoy dramatic mountain landscapes and bring beautiful mountain pictures back home.

Angeles National forest scenic landscape photo
Vast and spectacular landscape photos at high elevation
Dead tree at the edge of the mountain
Dry tree clinging to the edge of the cliff

Photography tips for taking forest and mountain pictures:

1. Bring long focal length lens to isolate details and or to photograph wildlife.

Amazing blue colors in mountains landscape
Vertical image of a blue landscape
Two small trees growing in tough mountain terrain
Trees on the mountain

2. Look for natural patterns and rhythms, lines and shapes, colors and shadows.

3. Landscape photography needs a high depth of field so bring and use a tripod.

Scenic drive stop - Inspiration point
Bench at Inspiration point, elevation 7,386 feet
angeles national forest Inspiration point stop - California road trip idea
View from Inspiration point

4. Take forest and mountain pictures at sunrise and sunset.

Mountain detail - dry tree trunk and new green growth
Mountain detail – dry tree trunk and new green growth
Pine tree branch on a blue background
A pine tree branch on a blue background
San Gabriel Mountains Pictures
San Gabriel Mountains Pictures
Green pine and blue mountains background complement each other
Green pine and blue mountains background complement each other
Mountain landscape - Clouds below in the valley
Clouds below in the valley
Yellow grass and green pines, angeles national forest
Yellow grass and green pines, Angeles National Forest
angeles national forest mountains pictures
Scenic photo in the mountains

   13.12.2023  by FPImages

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