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Iron Canyon Point out-and-back

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3.9 miles   200' elevation gain   season:  Nov-Apr   drive: 0:45

 

Sacramento River

 

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A stroll across rolling volcanic tableland cloaked in blue oak savanna (with a few juniper). Past herds of large grazing herbivores (cattle), to a rocky outcrop on the edge of Iron Canyon. This is where the Sacramento River comes out of the hills and enters the Great Central Valley. 

The Sacramento is an important salmon route, and is California's first or second largest river.

South from here it is flat for about 435 miles to Grapevine, at the south end of the Great Central Valley.