San Antonio Creek
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Fence along the San Antonio Creek Trail
This is a very easy walk, but has a enough distance to feel like a hike. Many people use this trail for jogging or other daily exercise.
The trail begins in at the far end of Tucker's Grove, a popular picnic spot on the weekend. It wanders along following San Antonio Creek until the trail finally end beneath highway 154. It's shaded most of the way. Very pleasant.
There is only approx. 300ft. elevation gain in approx 1.5 miles.
The hike is about 2 miles round trip.
San Antonio Creek Trail Updates
Update trail conditions
Posted: March 19, 2006, 8:05 pm
by: Anonymous
My husband and I were walking on this hike and saw a pair of adult glasses. We left them hoping someone would quickly find them. They were already placed on branch near the edge of the path.
Posted: November 30, 2005, 8:20 pm
by: woodman40
This is the hike I take non hikers on. Went up the 19th of November and again on the 26th.
The second walk was to introduce someone to the hike, show them the Chumash acorn grinding rock and try to spot the tarantula hawks I saw the week before.
I had spotted a hunting female T. Hawk wasp last week who dove on a male tarantula two Saturdays ago. Since it was late spider breeding time it was good wasp hunting. He had probably been scuttling along looking for a females nest and I saw her drop from a perch which is atypical. But everything about the encounter was atypical because after a little sparring around, she let him go. He stayed for a while in the defensive posture and then dropped down and took off.
I later did some reading and found that the wasps do this sometimes if the male spider is thin and raggedy looking because she needs a healthy one for her hatched egg to feed on.
Saw only one wasp this time and she was doing the usual ground level search pattern and not perched.
Posted: November 6, 2005, 6:37 pm
by: BSA Troop 42
Hiked on 5 November. Great cleared and mostly shady trail. Small pools in the Creek bed at first, but nice flowing Creek up the trail. A signed trail starts from the upper left corner of the last parking lot before the group picnic area. Seemed longer than 3 miles round trip from there.
Posted: March 23, 2005, 7:17 pm
by: Diane
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