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Coyote Creek Drying Up, Metcalf Park to Bailey Ave., 7/10/23 by Ronald Horii
This is a follow-up to the bike ride I did on 6/27/23, looking to see which parts of the Coyote Creek Trail were open after months of being flooded:
"Coyote Creek Trail Flooding, Then and Now, 6/25-27/23":
https://tinyurl.com/mr2pnhu4. At that time, I rode south on the Coyote Creek Trail starting at Metcalf Park. Part of the trail south of Coyote Ranch was still flooded, so I couldn't go all the way to Bailey Ave. The reason Coyote Creek was high, causing trail flooding, was that Anderson Reservoir was being drained as fast as possible. Federal regulators ordered it to be drained because of seismic concerns, and it was drained in 2020, but heavy winter rains in 2023 filled it more than halfway. By the end of June, Anderson was drained, and flows into Coyote Creek were greatly reduced. This caused the creek levels to drop, and the flooding ended. On 7/10/23, I rode my bike south from Metcalf Park. The Coyote Percolation Pond was lower. All the barriers on the Coyote Creek Trail were gone. I was able to ride all the way to Bailey. Since there weren't any trail closures from Bailey south, the trail is probably open all the way to its end at Anderson Lake. That means the entire trail from Tully to Anderson is probably open now. Here are more pictures of the Coyote Creek Trail: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteCreekParkway. Here's information about the Coyote Creek Parkway: https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/coyote-creek-parkway. The Coyote Creek Trail is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail. This is a map of the south part: https://ridgetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2020_SantaClara_CoyoteCreekParkwaySouth.pdf. This is a map of the north part: https://ridgetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2021_SantaClara_CoyoteCreekParkwayNorth_1compressed.pdf.
This is a follow-up to the bike ride I did on 6/27/23, looking to see which parts of the Coyote Creek Trail were open after months of being flooded:
"Coyote Creek Trail Flooding, Then and Now, 6/25-27/23":
https://tinyurl.com/mr2pnhu4. At that time, I rode south on the Coyote Creek Trail starting at Metcalf Park. Part of the trail south of Coyote Ranch was still flooded, so I couldn't go all the way to Bailey Ave. The reason Coyote Creek was high, causing trail flooding, was that Anderson Reservoir was being drained as fast as possible. Federal regulators ordered it to be drained because of seismic concerns, and it was drained in 2020, but heavy winter rains in 2023 filled it more than halfway. By the end of June, Anderson was drained, and flows into Coyote Creek were greatly reduced. This caused the creek levels to drop, and the flooding ended. On 7/10/23, I rode my bike south from Metcalf Park. The Coyote Percolation Pond was lower. All the barriers on the Coyote Creek Trail were gone. I was able to ride all the way to Bailey. Since there weren't any trail closures from Bailey south, the trail is probably open all the way to its end at Anderson Lake. That means the entire trail from Tully to Anderson is probably open now. Here are more pictures of the Coyote Creek Trail: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteCreekParkway. Here's information about the Coyote Creek Parkway: https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/coyote-creek-parkway. The Coyote Creek Trail is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail. This is a map of the south part: https://ridgetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2020_SantaClara_CoyoteCreekParkwaySouth.pdf. This is a map of the north part: https://ridgetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2021_SantaClara_CoyoteCreekParkwayNorth_1compressed.pdf.
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