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Cleveland National Forest is a U.S. national forest in Southern California that encompasses 460,000 acres/720 sq mi (1,900 km 2) of inland montane regions. It is approximately 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean, within the counties of San Diego , Riverside , and Orange .
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is a state park in inland San Diego County, California, United States, located 40 miles (64 km) east of the metropolitan area of San Diego.The park is situated near the southernmost reaches of the Cleveland National Forest, as well as the Cuyamaca and Laguna Mountains of the Peninsular Ranges.
It is located entirely in California, and managed by United States Forest Service as part of the Cleveland National Forest. [2] The wilderness is a sloping area of 13,261 acres (53.67 km 2), ranging from 2,000 ft (610 m) elevation in the south to 4,000 ft (1,200 m) in the north.
Mount Laguna is a small census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California.It is approximately 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above sea level in a forest of Jeffrey pine, east of San Diego in the Laguna Mountains on the eastern edge of the Cleveland National Forest.
In southern California, Cleveland National Forest has a Mediterranean climate and four wilderness areas. There are 22 endangered plant and animal species found in the forest. With its highest point at 6,271 ft (1,911 m) on Monument Peak, elevations are not as high here as in most of California's other national forests. [33]: 81–84 [36]
Mountains are primarily protected within the Cleveland National Forest. Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, with California oak woodlands habitat, is located in the range. The former mining town of Julian is in the northern section, [4] and the towns of Descanso, Pine Valley and Guatay is in the southern. [5]
The Trabuco Canyon National Forest was established in 1907, which was quickly combined into the Cleveland National Forest in 1908. [7] One of the last California grizzly bears was killed in Trabuco Canyon in 1908, a female bear thought to be the mate of the so-called "Monster of San Mateo." [8]
The largest forest entirely within the state is Shasta-Trinity National Forest, at 2,209,832 acres (8,942.87 km 2), the smallest is Cleveland National Forest at 460,000 acres (1,900 km 2). The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is not precisely a national forest in the conventional sense.