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Sam Mcdonald Pescadero Creek November 2017 November paper recycled on Printed C disturb or remove any plants or animals. or plants any remove or disturb Wild places & friendly spaces spaces friendly & places Wild Wild places & friendly spaces friendly & places Wild Please protect the parks’ natural environment and do not not do and environment natural parks’ the protect Please San Mateo County Parks County Mateo San historical sites. historical Smoking No smoking in County Parks, on trails, or at at or trails, on Parks, County in smoking No allowed depending on conditions. on depending allowed Jack Yaco trail camps, camp stoves are allowed; campfires are are campfires allowed; are stoves camp camps, trail No campfires or portable barbeques are allowed. At At allowed. are barbeques portable or campfires No Pescadero Creek: Pescadero conditions. risk fire to subject protection and enjoyment of these parks. these of enjoyment and protection are allowed only in designated pits or rings, and are are and rings, or pits designated in only allowed are Patrol Horse Volunteer ) promotes promotes ) smcvhp.org ( The in barbeque pits; no portable barbeques. Campfires Campfires barbeques. portable no pits; barbeque in Sam McDonald: Sam Fires Charcoal barbeques are allowed only only allowed are barbeques Charcoal community. For information, visit www.SupportParks.org. visit information, For community. funds to improve the quality of County Parks for our our for Parks County of quality the improve to funds Pets Pets are not allowed in the parks. parks. the in allowed not are Pets Foundation Parks County Mateo San The raises raises seasonally, and is posted. is and seasonally, improve parklands and serve park visitors. visitors. park serve and parklands improve Hours The parks open at 8am. Closing time changes changes time Closing 8am. at open parks The volunteer can You to help rangers protect and and protect rangers help to Park hours and use and hours Park Support your parks your Support For more trail information and routes, visit www.SMCoParks.org. visit routes, and information trail more For unlimited entrances to all County Parks for a year. a for Parks County all to entrances unlimited Weather conditions may cause seasonal trail closures. trail seasonal cause may conditions Weather The Department sells annual passes, offering offering passes, annual sells Department The Bicyclists always yield to other trail users. trail other to yield always Bicyclists sunny picnic areas, and popular playgrounds. popular and areas, picnic sunny the edge of the path. path. the of edge the forests, and remote campsites to Bayfront shoreline, shoreline, Bayfront to campsites remote and forests, Always yield to equestrians by stepping to to stepping by equestrians to yield Always natural settings, from rugged tidepools, lush mountain mountain lush tidepools, rugged from settings, natural alert and courteous to all trail users. trail all to courteous and alert The parks The represent our region’s wondrously diverse diverse wondrously region’s our represent equestrians share these trails. Please be be Please trails. these share equestrians encompassing more than 17,000 acres. 17,000 than more encompassing Hikers, runners, bicyclists, and and bicyclists, runners, Hikers, and historic sites located throughout the County and and County the throughout located sites historic and Trail use Trail system’s properties include parks, preserves, trails, trails, preserves, parks, include properties system’s opportunities for education and recreation. The The recreation. and education for opportunities historic sites to preserve public lands and provide provide and lands public preserve to sites historic The Department The manages parks, trails, and and trails, parks, manages Jack Yaco 84. or 1 Highways from accessible easily and Park, The complex is contiguous with Portola Redwoods State State Redwoods Portola with contiguous is complex The www.SMCoParks.org General information information General 650-363-4020 with campers, backpackers, hikers, cyclists, and equestrians. and cyclists, hikers, backpackers, campers, with Reservations 650-363-4021 campsites and an extensive trail network, and are favorites favorites are and network, trail extensive an and campsites most stunning redwood forests. The parks offer plenty of of plenty offer parks The forests. redwood stunning most San Mateo County Parks County Mateo San These parks include some of the Santa Cruz Mountain’s Mountain’s Cruz Santa the of some include parks These Memorial Park serves as headquarters for all four parks. four all for headquarters as serves Park Memorial Police, Fire, or Medical Emergency 911 Emergency Medical or Fire, Police, in southern San Mateo County. The ranger station at at station ranger The County. Mateo San southern in San Mateo County Parks County Mateo San make up the 8,020-acre Pescadero Creek Park Complex Complex Park Creek Pescadero 8,020-acre the up make 9500 Pescadero Creek Road, Loma Mar, CA 94021 CA Mar, Loma Road, Creek Pescadero 9500 Pescadero Creek Pescadero together with Memorial County Park and Heritage Grove, Grove, Heritage and Park County Memorial with together Headquarters at Memorial Park: 650-879-0238 Park: Memorial at Headquarters Sam McDonald and Pescadero Creek County Parks, Parks, County Creek Pescadero and McDonald Sam Entrance: 13435 Pescadero Creek Rd., Loma Mar, CA 94021 CA Mar, Loma Rd., Creek Pescadero 13435 Entrance: Sam McDonald McDonald Sam Pescadero Creek County Park County Creek Pescadero Pescadero Creek County Park County Creek Pescadero Sam McDonald County Park County McDonald Sam Sam McDonald County Park County McDonald Sam to San Gregorio LA HONDA to Woodside and 280 Sam McDonald County Park and 1 84 Sam McDonald County Park Pescadero Creek County Park S a Sam McDonald County Park offers magnificent redwood n 1 With 5,860 acres, Pescadero is by far the County’s Gr 84 forests and a ridge with vistas of the Pacific Ocean. ego LEGEND largest park. Its wilderness includes miles of trails for rio Cr eek Hiking/equestrian road Parking The Park, some 850 acres, includes youth camps, an P P hikers and equestrians. Pescadero Creek Park shares 2 es 0.4 ca Hiking/equestrian trail equestrian camp, and a hiker’s hut. der Restrooms its eastern boundary and a number of trails with o R oad water tank O Hiking trail Portola Redwoods State Park. The trail network also l d Picnic Area Adjacent to McDonald, Heritage Grove is a stunning Chin 0.4 ook 0.2 T 3 S ra Modoc Trail distance (miles) Group campground connects to Big Basin Redwoods State Park, offering 37-acre preserve of old-growth redwood forest. ta il g 0.3 Youth Camp e (by reservation) Uncle the opportunity for long hikes through multiple parks. 0.3 R 1 2 Numbered trail junctions o Chinook Youth group a Youth Camp 4 0.5 d campground Natural features 0.1 Fo Private property (by reservation) 5 res Man Natural features t Road 7 Gate Much of Sam McDonald Park is very steep. Ferns and Tra il 1.1 Bridge Pescadero Creek County Park includes a diversity of other shade-loving plants are found in lower elevations; 8 Hitching post Choctaw 9 trees including coast redwood, Douglas-fir, Santa 6 Youth 10 R the higher-elevation knolls are covered each spring with to Memorial Park, id Camp Y 800 g o Cruz cypress, California wax myrtle, tanoak, madrone, Pescadero, and e 0.4 u 1 t h Sam McDonald Legend 10/30/17 v45 colorful wildflowers such as sticky monkeyflower, wood F California laurel, big leaf maple, canyon live oak, i C r a e m Sam McDonald Park Entrance rose, and sun cup. R p coast live oak, and knobcone pine. o T (13435 Pescadero Creek Rd., Loma Mar, CA 94021) a ra d il 1.3 645' A The forests, dominated by coast redwood, also include escad lpine Road Heritage Grove The Park sits atop a deposit of oil and natural gas. P ero Road 11 k Trailhead 13 14 Cree 12 ine 600' Douglas-fir, madrone, California laurel, buckeye, big leaf lp 22 P 15 A P Crude oil pools up in Tarwater Creek and seeps into maple, and oak trees. 16 23 21 Her 0.1 Jones Gulch Creek, staining the rocks. itag 24 17 e G Trail 1.7 Common wildlife in Sam McDonald includes black-tailed 18 ro 25 v H ree e 700' Pescadero and Alpine Creeks both provide spawning T e 19 r rail i Big T Heritage t deer, raccoons, opossums, foxes, bobcats, woodpeckers, a habitat for endangered steelhead; Pescadero Creek Fire RoadTowne g 1.0 e 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 mile Grove Jack Brook Steller’s jays, garter and gopher snakes, and banana slugs. 20 0.9 G Horse Camp also has a small run of endangered Coho salmon. r o T 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 kilometer 0.7 v rail Heritage Grove offers visitors an opportunity to experience N e The endangered marbled murrelet, a small and secretive Contour interval 100 feet 980' 0.2 0.5 Road 30 27 Towne Fire 1100' the stunning beauty of old-growth coast redwoods. Located 26 seabird, nests in the Park. More easily seen are black- 29 0.1 Hikers’ Hut on Alpine Creek, the grove includes what are considered to West st Brook Trail Brook rail a 1200' T E 1240' tailed deer, raccoons, western gray squirrels, and the be among the Santa Cruz Mountain’s largest redwoods. SEE PESCADERO CREEK PARK MAP 28 occasional coyote and mountain lion. Activities and facilities 10/30/17 v45 Activities and facilities Several miles of trails for hikers, cyclists, and Trails This park is largely undeveloped wilderness. Hikers, equestrians include connections to adjacent parks. Big Tree Trail 1.2 miles cyclists, and equestrians can access an extensive Trails in Heritage Grove wind through the redwoods.
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