Adams’ Pack Station was founded in 1936 as a functional backcountry outpost for hot meals, mail deliveries, and other assorted goods needed for a weekend in the forest. At the time the National Forest ...

SIERRA MADRE – The only pack station left in Southern California has new owners, one of whom is now a tenant. Mother-and-daughter team Sue and Deb Burgess closed escrow on the Adams’ Pack Station in ...

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST – For more than 50 years, the Adams’ Pack Station general store at Chantry Flat has coordinated rescues of stranded hikers while offering visitors cold drinks, ice-cream and ...

A creaking tree stopped the Terzian family in their tracks on a recent spring day while surveying wildfire and wind damage at Minarets Pack Station in Sierra National Forest. Tracy and Mikki Terzian ...