Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
past the gate, you'll reach a four-way junction (0.7 mile, 630') with an unmarked
private trail that leads down to the small housing development in
Pacific Valley.
Fifty yards farther southeast, the trail crosses an abandoned, overgrown roadbed
and bends east for your first glimpse of the broad Prewitt Creek watershed. Narrow
belts of redwoods stretch up canyon like veins, following the moisture-bearing gullies
and ravines, while more drought-tolerant oaks and pines stud the upper watershed.
The trail contours past exposed south-facing slopes of arid chaparral and grasses,
in dramatic contrast to the cooler, shadier north-facing slopes of mixed evergreens
across the canyon.
