This Park is in San Diego's San Clemente Canyon, which runs east and west roughly between Interstate 5 and Interstate 805. State Route 52 runs in the northern portion of the canyon between those two freeways (and continues eastward), while the Park is in the southern portion of the Canyon, paralleling Route 52. The two formal entrances to the park are located off surface streets that north and south through the Canyon, Genesee Road and Regents Road.
Today I finally decided to make a visit to the Park, using the entrance at Genesee Road. One of the first features of the Park I came upon was a shallow, very slowly moving stream. Lots of rocks had been placed across the stream, so getting across with dry shoes was no problem.
Continuing on the path, I was quickly struck by what an attractive area this is. When I took this photo,
I was becoming aware that though I could still hear traffic on Route 52, but by that point the view of the highway was entirely obscured by the Park's trees; very nice. That view remained obscured for my the rest of my walk into the Park.
Continuing on and taking many photos, I quickly appreciated that many trees were growing over the path to some degree, thus creating much shade. Though the temperature was moderate, there were no clouds today, so that shade was very nice.
After I turned around to go back to my car, I noticed a very interesting scene. A large log (presumably the trunk of a downed tree that the branches had been removed from) that had been left in place to allow it to be naturally reclaimed. The evidence for this was that it was well underway to being covered by fungi.
All in all, I was very pleased with the Park, and have every intention of doing more exploring of it, as there is much I did not get to.
