Hike Notes

Los Osos Oaks State Preserve

Driving Directions
From San Luis Obispo take Los Osos Valley Road for 10 minutes.
About a mile before South Bay Blvd look left for Parking Area.
From Morro Bay take South Bay Blvd turning left on Los Osos Valley Road.
About a mile toward SLO look right for Parking Area.
Parking Area is opposite Palomino Drive.
Notes
Enter and take the left Los Osos Creek Trail Loop.
The creek was dry in August. Watch out for poison oak.
Eventually you'll work back to a marked junction in the center.
Continue into the park on the Oak View Trail Loop
Finally, you'll run into that 'arbor' and the end of Valley View Drive.
On the return part of the loop you should run into another junction.
Either take the Chumash Trail which will loop back to the beginning.
(We think we heard and saw some quail up in the short trees?)
Or head down the middle straight back to the Parking Lot.
Links and References
#24 Day Hikes in San Luis Obispo County, California - Robert Stone
California State Parks - Oaks Park Info
Sierra Club - Oaks Park Info
Things to See and Do - Chamber of Commerce
Cal Photos - extensive collection
morro-bay.com
Orchids of Los Osos
Elfin Forest (Cerro Cabrillo in the background)
  
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August 2001