{"id":2191,"date":"2009-03-20T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2009-03-20T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:21:54","slug":"waterfall-recommendations-in-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/03\/20\/waterfall-recommendations-in-the-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfall recommendations in the Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_11941826\">Lisa Krieger&#8217;s monthly Wanderlust column covers a few of the usual suspects, waterfallwise, in the South Bay<\/a>. I hadn&#8217;t heard of this one on the Peninsula, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brooks Falls<\/p>\n<p>On the San Mateo coast, Brooks Falls in San Pedro Valley County Park is the closest waterfall to the northern peninsula. The narrow plume of water drops 175 feet in a three-tiered silver ribbon to the valley floor, according to ranger Doug Heisinger.<\/p>\n<p>Although you can&#8217;t get close to the falls and vegetation conceals what was once a glorious scene, a bench overlooking Brooks Falls requires only 1.6 miles of hiking. For the best view, start on the Old Trout Farm Trail, which passes the remnants of a trout farm washed out by a 1962 flood. Connect to the Brooks Creek Trail and climb to the overlook.<\/p>\n<p>The hike around the Brooks Creek canyon can be made into an easy 3.5-mile loop that provides numerous views of the waterfall and also of the ocean. The watershed provides a valuable steelhead spawning ground.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: San Pedro Valley County Park at (650) 355-8289 or go to www.co.sanmateo.ca.us.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lisa also notes there&#8217;s a breeding pair of bald eagles nesting in a transmission tower overlooking Calaveras Reservoir. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of watery hikes, Gambolin&#8217; Man <a href=\"http:\/\/gambolinman.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/lagunitas-creek-exploring-turbulent-and.html\">just posted a Marin County hike he did awhile back.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Krieger&#8217;s monthly Wanderlust column covers a few of the usual suspects, waterfallwise, in the South Bay. I hadn&#8217;t heard of this one on the Peninsula, though: Brooks Falls On the San Mateo coast, Brooks Falls in San Pedro Valley&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/03\/20\/waterfall-recommendations-in-the-mercury-news\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}