Exploring Uvas Creek & Christmas Hill, Gilroy, Part 2, 9/18/21 by Ronald Horii
This is a continuation of this tour:
Exploring DeBell Uvas Creek Park & Trail, Gilroy, Part1, 7/31/21: https://tinyurl.com/ecrx3cc
In that tour, I mostly followed the trail on the north side of Uvas Creek. On 9/18/21, I went to check out the south side of the creek, including Christmas Hill Park. Here's a map of the loop route: https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/debell-park-and-uvas-creek-loop?mobileMap=false&ref=sidebar-static-map
Christmas Hill Park is famous for being the venue for the Gilroy Garlic Festival. (https://gilroygarlicfestivalassociation.com/) I've never been to that festival, because I didn't want to face all the traffic and crowds. It draws 80-100K people, more than doubling Gilroy's population of 60K. I've only seen Christmas Hill Park briefly, so I was curious to see what it looked like when it's not crowded. Here are pictures of my explorations.

For pictures of the Hecker Pass Trail on the west side of Santa Teresa Blvd., see: https://tinyurl.com/z6vckxs2 and https://tinyurl.com/r4788vke