We all know that water plays a big part of our lives. It helps sustain habitats as well as erode them away. It can make our roads dangerous and our views and vistas more colorful with blooming vegetation. Looking back at the year 2005 here in San Diego we saw more than double our normal… Read More »
2003 marked my third year working for the San Dieguito River Park. I started out in 2000 working as a contracted Ranger Aide/ Maintenance worker and progressed to a full time Ranger later that year. As the park continued to grow and purchase the land needed to build the Coast to Crest Trail, we were… Read More »
In the year 2001, the San Dieguito River Park was identified as a State Wildlife Corridor linkage by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. If you go to the California Parks website today, you will see the Coast to Crest Trail is a highlighted corridor on the Southern California map. The San Dieguito River… Read More »
Besides breathing a collective sigh of relief that our computers turned from 1999 to 2000 without the world ending (and that the media would no longer be dominated by that story), what else was happening in 2000? Well for one, I was hired as the Park’s new Environmental Planner eager to take on new projects… Read More »
As the idea of a San Dieguito Regional River Park was gaining speed in 1992 and lands on both ends of the park were being purchased, the reality of what was to unfold started sinking in. The areas around Lake Hodges were regarded as an important link between both the San Dieguito Regional River Park… Read More »
Join us this Saturday, January 26th at 10am for the Pamo Valley ribbon cutting and hike. The event includes a ranger led hike on the new 3.3 mile long trail. Vans will be available at the end of the trail to shuttle hikers back to their car. This is a family and dog (on leash)… Read More »
Please join us in celebrating three additional miles of the Coast to Crest Trail! January 26th at 10am at Pamo Valley
First, from all of us here at the San Dieguito River Park JPA, we wish you all Happy Holidays. Next, getting out from behind the desk as a park director every once in a while is crucial in many ways. The JPA has many complex management and planning responsibilities across a broad area for a… Read More »
Starting Wednesday, September 7, 2016, a temporary trail detour between Jimmy Durante Blvd. and the Coast to Crest Trail will be in place to take trail users around the work site of Phase II of the Del Mar Fairgounds South Overflow Lot Wetlands Restoration Project. As part of a compromise reached with the California Coastal… Read More »
The California Natural Resources Agency awarded a $285,140 River Parkways Program grant to the San Dieguito River Park JPA to build the Pamo Valley segment of the Coast to Crest Trail. The funds will pay for materials, supplies, subcontractors, and other construction-related costs to build the 3-mile long segment of Coast to Crest Trail in… Read More »
