Flores Peak

The printed panel facing the peak tells a legend: a hundred riders, and Flores alone leaping the cliff on horseback. The posses that cornered the gang here were led by Californios, Andrés Pico and Tomás Sánchez, and Flores rode down the slope with two others, was caught and escaped again. Pico hanged two captives on the spot. A public meeting voted Flores's death, and he was hanged in Los Angeles on February 14, 1857. Eleven more suspected men were lynched by the end of 1858, most by the El Monte Boys. No state plaque stands.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• California Citrus State Historic Park — 17 mi
  A state park that is still a working orange grove — the last big piece of Riverside's citrus landscape left standing.
• Sherman Institute & the Sherman Indian Museum — 18 mi
  The federal Indian boarding school Riverside lobbied to get — still a school today, its 1902 building now a museum.
• Planes of Fame Air Museum — 19 mi
  On the field where the country smelted its surplus warplanes — and about thirty of the aircraft here still fly.
• Riverside Chinatown Site — 23 mi
  Riverside's second Chinatown — an empty lot on purpose, with eighty percent of it still underground.

More markers nearby

• Modjeska's Home — 0.4 mi
• Carbondale — 3.1 mi
• Silverado — 3.2 mi
• The Serrano Adobe — 6.0 mi