Description:
This self guided nature trail (pick up a pamphlet key at the Visitor Information Center several miles north on Sunrise Highway) winds upward through a heavily wooded area of pines and oaks to the highest wooded point in the Laguna Mountains. On a clear day, you can see San Diego, Point Loma, and the Channel Islands from the top of the hill. The trail is a figure-eight loop and is a lovely walk, even on hot summer days. Scarlet Bugler grows in large groups beside a trail softened by Baby Blue-eyes ground-cover during the spring wildflower season. Our pamphlet will help you appreciate cat faces which are fire scars on trees; basket bush, commonly mistaken for poison oak, but actually used by Native Americans for weaving baskets; and pine tree co-habitators and parasites including staghorn lichen and dwarf mistletoe.