Rancho San Vicente Hike, 5/14/16 by Ronald Horii
On 5/14/16, I accompanied docents Cait Hutnik and Joan Murphy on a hike to Rancho San Vicente, the newest addition to Calero County Park. It's not open to the public yet. It's only accessible by guided hikes like this. Normally, we enter the park from McKean Road across from Rakstad Road, starting at the corral. Today, however, there were cattle operations going on at the corral, so we bypassed it by going in near Calero Dam and following the Almaden-Calero Canal levee road. The levee road is Water District property and will not be used as a trail in the future, so we had special permission to use it. Cait led the hike along the canal to the seep spring pond just above the canal. She turned back from there with half of the group that wanted a short hike. I led the rest of the group on a longer hike to the overlook of Calero Reservoir. The peak of the early spring wildflower season was in mid-March, but there were lots of late-season wildflowers out. For pictures of previous Rancho San Vicente hikes, see: http://www.rhorii.com/#Calero-RanchoSanVicente — at Calero Reservoir County Park. (near Calero Reservoir County Park)