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118.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.2K upvotes, which works out to 18 per 1,000 members.

18peak upvotes per 1,000 members
118.4Kmembers
2.2Kbest post
236most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

32% 25% 17% 15%
Text 32% Gallery 25% Image 17% Question 15% Link 7% Video 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Angeles National Forest 39 San Bernardino NF 12 San Diego County 9 Sequoia NP / NF 8 Santa Monica Mountains 6 Orange County 6 CA State Park 3 Cleveland National Forest 3 LA City Parks 3 Trip Report 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

↑ 2.2K 💬 201 image 2026

Saw a baby bobcat at Chantry flat

↑ 1.7K 💬 53 video 2026

Bobcat on the Gabrielino trail

↑ 1.4K 💬 101 gallery 2026

📍Alabama Hills

↑ 1K 💬 49 gallery 2026

Researching Mt Baldy accidents after my son's death

↑ 978 💬 116 text 2026

Escaping LA’s 105°F Heat to Swim in an Alpine Lake

↑ 623 💬 77 gallery 2026

Two first-time Sierra trip reports: Big Pine Lakes + Kearsarge/Rae Lakes

↑ 525 💬 32 gallery 2026

How Do We Stop This?!

↑ 486 💬 236 image 2026

Kearsarge Lakes (8/15/26) Did you see this?

↑ 486 💬 124 image 2026

More damage at Highway 39

↑ 474 💬 85 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/socalhiking, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/socalhiking have?
r/socalhiking has about 118.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 2.2K upvotes, which is 18 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/socalhiking?
"Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer" reached 2.2K upvotes and 201 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/socalhiking.
What subreddits are similar to r/socalhiking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/socalhiking?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are text posts and 25% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/socalhiking?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 00:00 UTC (595 avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (445 avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (341 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/socalhiking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/socalhiking has 273 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 200 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/socalhiking, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.