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Available Reviews
Zuma Canyon Topanga State Park |
Date of Review
01/26. 01/03. |
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| Zuma Canyon |
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01/26/21 |
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The impact of the Woolsey Fire is still very apparent in Zuma Canyon. The fact that we are way behind in winter rain isn't helping either. Still, it is a lovely place to hike. I took the trail up the north shoulder and then hiked on the creek trail as far as one can easily walk.
The flowers are very sparse. There are a very few autumn blooms; cliff aster, sawtooth goldenbush, and ashy leaf buckwheat. The spring flowers are just barely started; bush sunflower, purple nightshade, deerweed, wild cucumber, mulefat, telegraph weed and morning glory. There is not much of anything. The creek has no water until you get about a mile east of the parking lot. Still, it is quiet and peaceful, and if you are able to come on a weekday you will pretty much have the place to yourself. — Dorothy Steinicke 
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01/01/21 |
| A New Year's Day hike from Trippet Ranch to Will Rogers. Not too much in bloom despite the inch and a half of rain a few days earlier. The most impressive blooms were the chaparral current in both its usual pink and less common white variety. It wasn't abundant but the occasional bushes were filled with flowers. The other surprise were the blooming tree poppies around Eagle Springs. I was also surprised to find blooming white and purple nightshades. Otherwise there were the expected California and ashy buckwheats, California everlasting, cliff aster, telegraph weed and twiggy wreath plant. I good start to a new year. — Dorothy Steinicke | ||
Contact Information:
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