Devil's Punchbowl (Angeles National Forest)

Devil's Punchbowl is a tilted sandstone formation on the northern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains, in Los Angeles County, California, at an elevation of 4,750 feet (1,450 m).

The Devil's Punchbowl Nature Center is operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.

[2] The Pacific Crest Trail also traverses the park on an endangered species detour[5] to help protect the mountain yellow-legged frog.

The Punchbowl is a deep canyon categorized as a plunging syncline: a v-shaped folding of the earth's strata caused by compression.

Entering the park boundaries, the Joshuas are left behind and replaced by Pinyon pine Woodland, with shrubs of the Desert Chaparral as an understory.

The streambeds, both Punchbowl Creek at the bottom of the bowl and other watercourses in the Antelope Valley, have their own type of vegetation with cottonwoods, willows, and other plants that require more water.

The park's reptile and amphibian fauna represent a unique blend of types found in both deserts and mountains.