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Coyote Creek Trail: Wildflowers and Wild Water, 4/8/23 by Ronald Horii
On a sunny day on 4/8/23, after many weeks of rain, I went for a bike ride on the Coyote Creek Trail. I started at the southern trailhead at Anderson Lake County Park. I rode north to just past Bailey Avenue, where the trail has been closed for several months due to flooding. At the start, I took a side trip off the paved trail into the Malaguerra area, where I saw poppies growing on the hills. Coyote Creek is running high because water is being released from Anderson Reservoir, with its outlet wide open at maximum flow. Anderson needs to be emptied so the dam can be replaced. It's currently 54% full. It's supposed to be at 3%. It may take into the summer to drain the reservoir. With such high flows, Coyote Creek is flooding the trail in several places between Bailey Avenue and Hellyer County Park. The creek is flowing in places where I've rarely or never seen it flow before. There are places in the Ogier Quarry area that are usually dry that are now full of water. Here's the map of the Coyote Creek Trail: https://parks.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb961/files/Coyote%20Creek%20Parkway%20Guide%20Map.pdf. Here are more of my pictures of the Coyote Creek Parkway: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteCreekParkway.
On a sunny day on 4/8/23, after many weeks of rain, I went for a bike ride on the Coyote Creek Trail. I started at the southern trailhead at Anderson Lake County Park. I rode north to just past Bailey Avenue, where the trail has been closed for several months due to flooding. At the start, I took a side trip off the paved trail into the Malaguerra area, where I saw poppies growing on the hills. Coyote Creek is running high because water is being released from Anderson Reservoir, with its outlet wide open at maximum flow. Anderson needs to be emptied so the dam can be replaced. It's currently 54% full. It's supposed to be at 3%. It may take into the summer to drain the reservoir. With such high flows, Coyote Creek is flooding the trail in several places between Bailey Avenue and Hellyer County Park. The creek is flowing in places where I've rarely or never seen it flow before. There are places in the Ogier Quarry area that are usually dry that are now full of water. Here's the map of the Coyote Creek Trail: https://parks.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb961/files/Coyote%20Creek%20Parkway%20Guide%20Map.pdf. Here are more of my pictures of the Coyote Creek Parkway: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteCreekParkway.
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