It is difficult to admire the wildflowers adequately unless you're a passenger, however, because there is little room to pull over and you must keep your eyes on the road. In late spring and early summer the air in this section is perfumed by the fragrance of the exotic yellow-flowered Spanish broom. The roadcuts show off the light-colored Mt. Josephine granodiorite. Park here and quickly scamper across the road to the lookout on the west side. The lookout is nicely constructed of river rock and gives the feeling of being in a crenellated castle.
Lizards are the only inhabitants.
You can look down into the deep gorge and see the ribbon of refreshing green alder trees in summer. Also look southeast to see the forest of bigcone spruce and canyon oak clothing the north-facing slopes. Floods periodically scour the canyon and debris fills the reservoir behind the dam lower down. Next the road passes through a tunnel, sometimes marked on maps as the Singing Springs Tunnel. The road cuts through a ridge separating the Big Tujunga from its tributary, Mill Creek.