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🎉 Bear Creek Redwoods opens four new miles of historic trails! 🌲 The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open four miles of new trails at a newly restored section of the preserve in Los Gatos. Also learn about "The Bat Cave" and much more. 🥾 Explore new paths: https://lnkd.in/gXGbXRuE #HilltromperSV #MidpeninsulaOpenSpace #BearCreekRedwoods

🏖️ Building a Resilient Future at Seacliff State Beach 👍 Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks is helping the agency gather public input for a new vision at Seacliff and New Brighton State Beaches. At recent in-person and online meetings, staff and project consultants shared ideas for replacing facilities destroyed by a series of severe storms in 2023 and introduced innovative strategies to protect the beach and park. 🌊 Get the latest info and take the Landscape Element Survey to share what designs you think may work best: https://lnkd.in/gtBzpSe3 California State Parks #Hilltromper #SeacliffResilience #ThatsMyBeach #ThatsMyPark #CAStateParks

🌱 Saturday, November 2: Native Plant Sale at Half Moon Bay ✔️ Join Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks for Half Moon Bay State Beach’s Bi-Annual Native Plant Sale! All plants available are native to the San Mateo Coast and were grown in their nursery! Seed packets are $3 and Plants are $10. Come for the plant sale, stay for the beach! 🌼 Get your very own native plant now: https://lnkd.in/geMMdYui #HilltromperSV #NativePlantSale #HalfMoonBay #ThatsMyBeach

🚴 Saturday, November 2: First Saturday MORCA Ride! 💪 You are invited to go riding with MORCA (Monterey Off Road Cycling Association)! This ride is just south in Marina but is being promoted by Girls Rock / Santa Cruz Women's Mountain Biking. Support MORCA by learning routes and leading their rides, and participating in their trail work days. Rides are the first Saturday of every month at 9:00am. ⛑️ Grab your helmet and check it out: https://lnkd.in/gaBRxQ9n #Hilltromper #MORCA #GirlsRockMTB #MountainBiking

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🛡️🌲 New Plan Unveiled to Safeguard Iconic Redwood Parks in Santa Cruz County (and San Mateo County)! 🏞️ California State Parks and Save the Redwoods League release a report outlining actions needed to restore and protect Big Basin Redwoods, Año Nuevo and Butano state parks after CZU Lightning Complex Fire. 👉 Learn about the actions needed to protect these amazing landscapes: https://lnkd.in/g236ApXP #Hilltromper #ForestRestoration #CZUFireRecovery #SantaCruzMountains #ThatsMyPark #CAStateParks #ReimaginingBigBasin

🌻 An Ode to Coyote Brush and Other Late Fall Bloomers! 🧐 Discover what's blooming in mid to late fall, and where you can find these flowering plants on the Peninsula, in the South Bay, and Santa Cruz. The bottom of this article also links to our new BloomTracker update! ❓ Let us know why you think it's called coyote brush and get some ideas here: https://lnkd.in/gW8Hcv7C #HilltromperSV #FallWildflowers #CaliforniaNativePlants #BloomTracker

🥾 Saturday, October 26: Quicksilver History Hike! ⛰️ Join an Almaden Quicksilver Park Interpreter for a hike in the Almaden Hills to discover how our changing values have impacted the landscape, and a once bustling mining enterprise became a County Park. 🧠 Learn while you hike: https://lnkd.in/gkGPeAbX Santa Clara County Parks #HilltromperSV #AlmadenQuicksilverPark #SantaClaraCountyParks

🥾 Saturday, October 26: Hike to Maple Falls in Nisene Marks with California Native Plant Society - Santa Cruz 🌺 With field botanists Grace Brieger and Lucy Ferneyhough, enjoy fall colors and creekside flora on this eight-mile round trip hike, with about 700 feet elevation gain. 🌱 Step into nature’s paradise: https://lnkd.in/g-YUpUs2 #Hilltromper #NiseneMarks #CruzCNPS #CaliforniaNativePlants

📢 Attend the Seacliff Resilience virtual community workshop on Monday night, October 21st!  🧡 Help shape the future of Seacliff and New Brighton state beaches that were severely damaged in 2023 and are increasingly impacted by climate-driven hazards such as large surf, flooding during storms, sea level rise and erosion of beaches and cliffs. 🌊 Get more information and sign up for the workshop here: https://lnkd.in/g-RNTHaZ Watch this short video: https://lnkd.in/gNDwf3Mp #Hilltromper #SeacliffResilience #ThatsMyBeach #ThatsMyPark #CAStateParks