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Have you tried Lytle Creek? I've found gold in the past in the gravels in the side canyons above the town and in the canyons above the hydraulic mine workings at the mouth of the canyon.

The gold at East Fork at SGC is deep (20" - 40') if your dredging, or a good hike above where everyone else has worked, up above the Narrows and the "Bridge to Nowhere".

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Forget the east fork and head to the cajon creek. No rangers, no parking problems and there is gold. The gold is not big, but for a fun day try blue cut or try one of the three feeder canyons. I like the feeder canyons.

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  • 12 years later...

I think the National Forest Service shut the San Gabriel area down to gold mining by designating it as a Wilderness Area.  You’re supposed to routinely see people panning and sluicing though.

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 Thank's for the info ,The Forest Service web site is hard to find Any info on Closed roads since the fires , or Panning on some creeks , Yet you are supposed to know the forest rules ?

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17 hours ago, xracer550 said:

 Thank's for the info ,The Forest Service web site is hard to find Any info on Closed roads since the fires , or Panning on some creeks , Yet you are supposed to know the forest rules ?

That is correct.  It’s your responsibility to know the rules.  

Closed roads is not easy either.  Best thing to do is google the road closure for the name of the National Forest you are going to and hope temporary closure info pops up in Google.  I will tell you I search for that prior to going somewhere.

For National Forest Roads, this is a site to go to to see the motor vehicle use maps to see if a vehicle is authorized on a road.  This is not temporaty road closures

https://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv/ohv_maps.shtml

If you look up Travel Management Plans for the BLM area you go through that will tell you what vehicles are allowed on these roads. Showed up at an area to find a road closure had made me walk a lot further than I wanted.

Ultimately up to you to look through all that stuff to see if you can get to where you want or risk facing a sign that says you can’t.  It also helps if someone unofficially posts an unofficial sign trying to keep you out of an area.  That way you know you can go.

For where you can pan, is really anywhere you can stake a claim that is not claimed.    That is a whole other conversation for another thread.

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