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| no partners | | Second day of Cali vaca!  Made this a combo hike. Noticed on some of the write ups that the San Luis Rey River trail ties into the Guajome Regional Park. So I picked up where I left off yesterday and took the San Luis to where it “connects” to the Guajome. The “connection” isn’t quite as tight as I envisioned, but it wasn’t that bad. The San Luis trail ends at the corner of highway 76 and Santa Fe Ave. There is a nice little parking area on the north side of the highway with enough room for 10 cars. An ideal spot to start the San Luis trail and (even though there is no signage for it) the Guajome Regional Park trails. From this parking area there is a dirt trail that runs adjacent to the highway. Follow this trail for about .2 miles and go under the bridge. When you come out the other side, you are in Guajome Park. I gridded the entire park going in a CCW direction, hitting anything that remotely looked like a trail. This caused some retracing of some routes, but allowed me to touch every trail….and there were/are a lot of them. There are 7 officially named trails (Willow, Summit (I think I gained 50 ft on that trail), Santa Fe, Lusieno (possibly the longest of the trails distancing about .75miles)) and about 3-4 very short user/connector trails. Most of the trails are unremarkable, being broad dirt paths wide enough to drive your car on. There is one lake in the park and another, smaller one, which I thought of more as a pond. Neither one is that visible from the trails: the pond almost entirely not and the lake from only about a quarter of the trail. The park is touted for its bird watching and there were quite a few birds there; along with ducks, geese and some sort of crane which was a treat. The one trail that deserves noting was the Nature trail. It is more of a single track that is nicely enclosed by the surrounding vegetation. A couple of bridges are used to cross water ways, but a I didn’t see any water…only growth and lily pads. Short trail. Maybe .4 miles long. All the trails were signed and there were a couple of park maps in various spots. The park maps were generic and not that helpful. Nice trails if you are a birder or in the area, but not a destination trail. There was also a campground in this park and the facilities looked pretty nice, so if you have a camper….. |
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