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I'd wanted to do this hike a couple weeks earlier, since it is known for
its wildflower displays. Unfortunately the hike got delayed and we were
past prime wildflower season. Still, we did see lots of different varieties
of flowers, if not in overwhelming numbers.
We arrived at the park around 3:30 or so, but there was plenty of light
to do the short hike well before sunset. Both the main and overflow
parking areas were nearly full. Despite that fact, we didn't see a
tremendous number of people on the trail. Perhaps some of them were
just barbequing.
We started off on the Edgewood Trail, which climbs immediately through
forest. There are
a maze of interconnecting trails in the park, so be sure to pick up a
map. We cross a dirt road, turned left at the first real intersection
onto the Francisco Trail, then crossed the same dirt road again.
We were out in the open now, seeing occasional wildflowers. There were
all kinds of flowers, most of which I can't identify. I did see
a few scattered Indian paintbrush and columbine, but these were not the
dominant flowers. Poppies were fairly plentiful.
Flowers
We were now out in the open, on rolling hills which were in various
stages of turning from green to brown. Across the way we could see
the house and hills of Crestview Road, and beyond that the bay.
Edgewood is a fairly urban park. It's not in the middle of downtown,
but you're almost never out of sight of houses or out of earshot of
Interstate 280.
Poppy
We followed the trail to the Ridgeview Loop trail, where we took the
right fork and then joined the Serpentine Trail. This part of the trail is within
shouting distance of 280. You can hear the rush of cars constantly.
The main hills in the park are on your left as you go along the wide dirt
road. We could see several turkey vultures circling in the air above the
hills.
Flower
Eventually we curved around and made a right on to the Sylvan Trail, which
we took through more forest back to the parking lot. If we had come a
few weeks earlier this might have been a nicer hike for wildflowers, but
there's not much else to see. There are some views, but nothing spectacular --
much of it is marred by houses.
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