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Rancho San Antonio Part 1: Hammond-Snyder Trail to Deer Hollow by Ronald Horii
On a warm, sunny day in January, I went for a hike in Rancho San Antonio. I didn't have a specific destination in mind, but I wanted to get more pictures of the park, since I haven't been there much. Rancho San Antonio is a huge park. The longest hike I've ever done was there, and I only covered a fraction of the park. It's unusual in that it is part County Park, part Open Space Preserve, with a farm in the middle run by the City of Mountain View. The Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) manages the whole park. The County Park portion covers 290 acres and contains the developed parts of the park, including parking lots, restrooms, picnic areas, tennis courts, lawns, a model airplane field, and paved trails. The MROSD preserve covers 3988 acres. It has 23 miles of trails that run through a variety of environments and climb to the top of 2812-foot Black Mountain on the ridgeline of the Santa Cruz Mountains. My total hike today covered only 6.7 miles. I started from the edge of the park on the Hammond-Snyder Loop Trail, walked into the heart of the park at Deer Hollow Farm, then returned along the hillside and the back part of the Hammond-Snyder Trail. I took a lot of pictures, so I split it into 3 albums. This is the first part, ending at Deer Hollow Farm. — at Rancho San Antonio County Park. (near Rancho San Antonio County Park)
On a warm, sunny day in January, I went for a hike in Rancho San Antonio. I didn't have a specific destination in mind, but I wanted to get more pictures of the park, since I haven't been there much. Rancho San Antonio is a huge park. The longest hike I've ever done was there, and I only covered a fraction of the park. It's unusual in that it is part County Park, part Open Space Preserve, with a farm in the middle run by the City of Mountain View. The Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) manages the whole park. The County Park portion covers 290 acres and contains the developed parts of the park, including parking lots, restrooms, picnic areas, tennis courts, lawns, a model airplane field, and paved trails. The MROSD preserve covers 3988 acres. It has 23 miles of trails that run through a variety of environments and climb to the top of 2812-foot Black Mountain on the ridgeline of the Santa Cruz Mountains. My total hike today covered only 6.7 miles. I started from the edge of the park on the Hammond-Snyder Loop Trail, walked into the heart of the park at Deer Hollow Farm, then returned along the hillside and the back part of the Hammond-Snyder Trail. I took a lot of pictures, so I split it into 3 albums. This is the first part, ending at Deer Hollow Farm. — at Rancho San Antonio County Park. (near Rancho San Antonio County Park)
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