Little Lakes Valley segment

Plan a visit

Routes and geography

Official dataset route segment

Recorded for: Little Lakes Valley segment

Coordinate reference system

EPSG:4269

Dataset feature id

{E5EAA451-A87B-42A2-93E3-B0E96FCE0DDA}

Dataset feature name

LITTLE LAKES VALLEY

Dataset field

lengthmiles

Distance miles

3.10421564

Distance status

known

End coordinate

Latitude: 37.39136930029423
Longitude: -118.75105991465682

Geometry snapshot

Feature id: {E5EAA451-A87B-42A2-93E3-B0E96FCE0DDA}
Path: geometry/v0/snapshots/usgs-rock-creek-principal-routes-20260923.geojson
Sha256: cbbaa853ee6d4ad8a8d995ab91270b7154a5fe3643ac1cb666d43f53c59b600a

Operational status requires current check

Yes

Route role

official mainline

Source data description

USFS Trails Update 03/2026

Source dataset id

{8CC4DB36-D0BE-4189-88C7-64C3569EB754}

Source edit date

1774742400000

Source feature id

1491

Source load date

1777310283000

Source mode attributes

Hiker pedestrian: Unknown
Pack saddle: Unknown

Source originator

U.S. Forest Service

Start coordinate

Latitude: 37.42904157002738
Longitude: -118.75098319486528

Evidence and sources (1)

No claim effective interval recorded.

Spatial scope IDs: scope-route-little-lakes-valley, scope-route-morgan-pass-rock-creek

Evidence stance: supports · Evidence details
A bounded USGS National Digital Trails query returned U.S. Forest Service-originated distance-bearing features for the shared Mosquito Flat approach, Little Lakes Valley, Mono Pass, Morgan Pass, Tamarack Lakes, and Hilton Lakes. Twenty-five reviewed features are retained in an immutable snapshot; geometry and source-field distances do not by themselves establish visitor itinerary semantics.
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey / U.S. Forest Service
Observer / attribution
Not recorded
Observed at
Unknown
Retrieved at
2026-09-23T21:00:00+00:00
Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.
Observation details · Source details · Original source: U.S. Geological Survey / U.S. Forest Service
Recorded artifact references
- geometry/v0/snapshots/usgs-rock-creek-principal-routes-20260923.geojson
- cbbaa853ee6d4ad8a8d995ab91270b7154a5fe3643ac1cb666d43f53c59b600a
References are not a confirmation of current availability.

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Before you go

These open questions need confirmation; Wayproof does not fill them with guesses.

What are the source-published segment mileages between each named Little Lakes Valley lake?

The official map establishes the named lakes along the corridor, but the reviewed USGS service publishes the valley as one 3.104216-mile feature. Wayproof does not cut it at inferred positions.

Open question. Linked evidence does not resolve this gap.

No specific claim evidence is linked to this question.

Sources, evidence, and history

Planning facts above are readable first. Open these records when you need to audit a source or see when knowledge changed.

Published ChangeSet history

wp-20260923-rock-creek-corridor-principal-routes — ADD route-segment-rock-creek-little-lakes-main: Publish the official Rock Creek corridor, principal distance-bearing hiking topology, reviewed geometry, and Mosquito Flat overnight-permit boundary.
wp-20260923-rock-creek-corridor-principal-routes — ADD claim-route-segment-rock-creek-little-lakes-main: Publish the official Rock Creek corridor, principal distance-bearing hiking topology, reviewed geometry, and Mosquito Flat overnight-permit boundary.