San Dieguito River Park

Preserving and interpreting the natural and cultural resources of the San Dieguito River Valley

Archives for Coast to Crest Trail

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2015- 5-day Field Trips, Coastal Ranger Station planning and a New Trail for Pamo Valley

In 2015, the San Dieguito River Park acquired 2 passenger vans and officially launched the Watershed Explorer Program. The program offers 5-day fieldtrips throughout the San Dieguito Watershed. Youths can enjoy the adventures and experiences to places such as: Volcan Mountain, Lake Sutherland, the San Diego Archaelogical Center, Sikes Adobe Historic Farmstead, Lake Hodges and… Read More »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2014 – Learning lessons along the Coast to Crest Trail

2014 would provide some great learning opportunities within the San Dieguito River Valley. Our executive director at the time Dick Bobertz along with Poway City Councilman Jim Cunningham and San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy board member Bill Simmons were finishing the final segment of their more than 72-mile trek of the Coast to Crest Trail… Read More »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2013 – Volunteer Mountain Bike Patrol Begins

The San Dieguito River Park has greatly benefited from the volunteer Mountain Bike Patrol program that Senior Park Ranger David Hekel, himself a mountain biker, started in June 2013. The park has always had volunteer trail patrol members, some of whom rode mountain bikes, that help provide extra eyes and ears on the trail and… Read More »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2011 – Two Hundred Feet Goes a Long Way…

On October 8, 2011, the San Dieguito River Park celebrated the opening of a short trail with a long horizon – the Old Coach Trail – linking the Coast to Crest Trail in San Pasqual Valley to the City of Poway’s vast trail system including the regional Trans-County Trail. The 200 feet of new trail,… Read More »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2009 – A BIG year for us

In 2009, despite still recovering from recession, wildfires, no official office space, and a shortfall of member agency funding, the San Dieguito River Park, the JPA, and its partners had a huge year of monumental successes. At the San Dieguito Lagoon, Southern California Edison finished construction of their restoration project creating and/or enhancing 150 acres… Read More »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2005 – Planning Trail Connections

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 »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2003 – Building on the past for the Future!

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 »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 2001- A Wildlife Corridor

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 »

San Dieguito River Park Turns 30! 1992 – Working Together

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 »

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San Dieguito River Park
18372 Sycamore Creek Road, Escondido, CA 92025
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