Best Bay Area Parks to see wildflowers

Some of the sites in the list are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex and SCU Fire Complex. Please check web sites on the latest info. If I ask you, what place would you think when I ask you where to find wildflowers in California, I doubt, I will hear “Bay Area.” But indeed…

Monte Bello Open Space Preserve

There are no bad seasons here in Santa Cruz mountains. Wet winter clears the horizon and produces dramatic clouds, green Spring is full of wildflowers, Fall brings orange and bright yellow occasional leaves and smelly nuts to shine under yet warm sun above the brown and dead grass. Summer is all about fog. Fog covers…