Popular Trips in Butano State Park
WHEN : March 27, 2009
WHERE: Butano State Park
DIRECTIONS: North on I-280 13 miles to CA-84. West on CA-84 13.4 miles to La Honda. Just after La Honda, turn left on Pescadero Road. Go 11.5 miles, turn left on Butano Cutoff, go 0.5 miles, turn left on Cloverdale Road, go 3.7 miles, turn left on Butano State Park Road.
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=536
TRAILS: Jackson Flats Trail > Butano Creek Trail Loop > back to back Jackson Flat...
I brought the girls over the hill to Gazos Creek to look for Salamanders and Newts and things. They had a great time flipping logs and searching around with a find count of 6 newts and 2 different types of salamanders plus probably 50 different types of mushrooms and fungus. After we were done exploring the area at the end of the road we decided to do a quick hike before grabbing...
A fun little hike through the lower sections of Butano with my son to look for Calypso Orchids.I'd read online that the orchids flower in a few different areas of the park, Ano Nuevo trail, Goat Hill and Mill Ox. We checked the first two and found success so skipped searching Mill Ox on the other side of the valley. The hike starts out with a tough but pretty climb up Ano Nuevo...
I've camped at Butano before but never hiked the trails. So I decided to take a day trip out to the park and see what it had to offer. Butano: great for camping, not so much the hiking. I took the Ano Nuevo trail up to the Olmo Fire Road. Okay, hiking strait up, that happens. But this trail was way overgrown and I'm just shocked I didn't get a good case of poison...
This was a moderate 10.4 mile hike with 1550 ft elevation gain. Butano SP takes the longest time to get to from San Jose. There is some camping at this park. The ecology of this park ranges from the coastal redwoods to bays, oaks and pines. About a third of the hike is in the sun.We started from the 2nd parking lot and hiked back to the visitor center where the trail...
