Six months after the trail was reopened to the public for the first time in decades, the path to Fish Canyon Falls is once again closed, this time because of a rock slide that has blocked the trail.
The rock slide was reported at 3 p.m. Wednesday by hikers, Duarte Deputy City Manager Karen Herrera said. The hikers had to be rescued because the trail was impassable after the slide, she said.
“The portion of the trail that suffered the rock slide was in the Angeles National Forest,” Herrera said. “They responded and that’s why they closed the trail.”
Herrera said forest service officials would be evaluating the trail, but that officials at Vulcan Materials Co. had closed access to the trailhead, which passes through the quarry.
However, forest service officials said they had not officially closed the trail because its condition still needed to be evaluated.
“We have to send people out there to look at the trail itself,” U.S. Forest Service spokesman Nathan Judy said.
There was no timeline for when the trail would be evaluated, Judy said.
