They keep talking about how big it is 6,142 acres, so why only open six mils of trails to the public? I'm glad they finally made it open to the public without a permit.
Posted on 12/02/2017 1:49:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
For the past 175 years, it’s been a Mexican land grant, a dairy farm, a hideout for members of Jesse James’ outlaw gang, an oil field, a redwood logging mill, a cattle ranch and a retreat for heirs to the Weyerhaeuser lumber and Folgers coffee fortunes.
Now, this scenic 6,142-acre expanse in rural San Mateo County — with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean — will finally be opened to the public. On Friday, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District will open six miles of trails for hikers and horseback riders through the La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve, which stretches for five miles from Skyline Boulevard to La Honda.
“You can go from the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains halfway down to the ocean, from wonderful redwoods to grasslands,” said Steve Abbors, general manager of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, a government agency based in Los Altos. “It’s like a small national park. It’s just beautiful.”
The preserve — which is three times the size of the UC Santa Cruz campus and home to red-tail hawks, bobcats, deer and other wildlife — will be open every day from sunrise to sunset, free of charge, like the other 25 preserves that the open space district operates across 63,000 acres in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Starting Friday morning, it will be accessible through a gate just north of the town of La Honda at 900 Sears Ranch Road. There’s also a new parking lot, restrooms and interpretive signs.
The opening is a watershed event for the agency and Bay Area lovers of the outdoors.
Over the years, the open space district, which is funded by property taxes, has come under criticism for buying land but keeping roughly half its holdings closed to the public. La Honda Creek,
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They keep talking about how big it is 6,142 acres, so why only open six mils of trails to the public? I'm glad they finally made it open to the public without a permit.
Did you ever get there?
I see happy hunting grounds for muggers, rapists, murderers and every other kind of thug amongst the disarmed Californians.
You have no idea what you are talking about. You could drop your wallet there and it would be returned to you with everything in it.
This is all for the super-wealthy super leftist who live in Santa Cruz, San Jose, SF south bay area.
No, that’s Castle Rock State Park.
NO JUST ILLEGALS
The mountain lions will be happy.
“You have no idea what you are talking about. You could drop your wallet there and it would be returned to you with everything in it.”
Where is the /sarc?
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This is all a big smoke screen to hide the fact that all of this land has been taken off the tax rolls, but only a small part of it is being made accessable.
Much of the land is buffering the estates of the original owners, but now they will pay no more taxes on it.
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Ya got to know this region. Illegals for the most part don’t take nature walks for health to see twigs and dirt or take $4,000 mountain bicycles, they don’t own, on the trails.
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This is FreeRepublic; we have no need for superfluous ‘tags.’
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Its not the “illegals” we have to worry about; its the Earth NAZI.
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They will go because its Free have you ever saw California parks
Ya mean near San Pedro, San Berdo, or LA? Ya think this park is in this same type venue or has same type people as Santa Cruz/San Jose?
Think again.
Not wanting to argue just being a bit flippant, but yes know the area well
Watch out for this group (Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District) they are taking over everything they can get their slimy hands on.
This is great that the lower La Honda part is opening up! Thanks for posting this. Have you done Umunhum yet? One of the guys on this week had just done it and was raving about it.
Here's the map to the upper part of La Honda that I was going to do. It needs a permit which the OSD get to you very quickly:
“This is all for the super-wealthy super leftist who live in Santa Cruz, San Jose, SF south bay area.”
Why would you say something so blatantly stupid and ignorant? Do you enjoy looking like the fool? You get out on these trails and you meet people from every walk of life. I’ve yet to meet a “super-wealthy super leftist” on our trails.
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