After a great "where to next" debate, I decided to return to Larkspur and try the trail, which starts by the Larkspur Pavilion and the fitness trail The weather was cloudy, cold and breezy, but there were still people playing basketball, and some of my Parks coworkers were working there on the landscape, one who is year round, the others are seasonals who started later than I did and work into the winter.
The trail is a sandy gravel, and I had no trouble following it for twenty minutes out, through the Pinewood Natural area. The trail runs behind fenced yards and the backs of apartments and duplexes, cuts through the natural area, and then back into more houses. A couple of benches that had thoughtfully been placed off to the sides of the trail, with a nice view of the small (now empty) canal, and would be nice places to meditate on a day when the garbage truck wasn't making its run through the local neighborhood. There were some trees, rock, brush, grasses and dirt, and of course, the canal and it was all very open and inviting. The area is not as isolated I thought it would be, even though I saw only three people there: a dog walker, another hiker and a Parks employee who was taking care of the pine needles.
According to the map, the Coyner Trail is suppose to branch off and head toward Ponderosa Park, but I didn't see any signs to that effect, although I did see some short grey markers that informed me that I was still on the Larkspur Trail. At the beginning, I walked through a cul-de-sac of an area of nice mobile homes that looked like houses, and all had garages, and when my timer announced that I'd been walking for twenty minutes, I was at Cessna Avenue. I decided to save the rest of the hike for some other time, and headed back to the car.
Nope, no photo here at this time; didn't find one on Google.
The trail is a sandy gravel, and I had no trouble following it for twenty minutes out, through the Pinewood Natural area. The trail runs behind fenced yards and the backs of apartments and duplexes, cuts through the natural area, and then back into more houses. A couple of benches that had thoughtfully been placed off to the sides of the trail, with a nice view of the small (now empty) canal, and would be nice places to meditate on a day when the garbage truck wasn't making its run through the local neighborhood. There were some trees, rock, brush, grasses and dirt, and of course, the canal and it was all very open and inviting. The area is not as isolated I thought it would be, even though I saw only three people there: a dog walker, another hiker and a Parks employee who was taking care of the pine needles.
According to the map, the Coyner Trail is suppose to branch off and head toward Ponderosa Park, but I didn't see any signs to that effect, although I did see some short grey markers that informed me that I was still on the Larkspur Trail. At the beginning, I walked through a cul-de-sac of an area of nice mobile homes that looked like houses, and all had garages, and when my timer announced that I'd been walking for twenty minutes, I was at Cessna Avenue. I decided to save the rest of the hike for some other time, and headed back to the car.
Nope, no photo here at this time; didn't find one on Google.
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