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San Gabriel Mountains

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. a mountain range in S California, N of Los Angeles. Highest peak, San Antonio Peak, 10,080 feet (3,072 meters).


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Their house, a few blocks from the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, survived.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

In 2008, three men were killed by an avalanche near Wrightwood, in the San Gabriel Mountains, while skiing out of bounds near the Mountain High resort.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

When Don Toliver set out to make his new album “Octane,” the rapper was first fixated on Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

The weekend deluge sent mud and debris flowing onto roads in Wrightwood, a community in the San Gabriel Mountains that was slammed with mudslides during another destructive storm on Christmas Eve.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Milton Stanley Livingston was a burly farm boy who had been raised in the foothills of California’s San Gabriel Mountains, where his father owned an orange grove.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik