Napa County Open Space District employee, JoeJoe Clark, led close to 30 people to discover some of the wildflowers on Oat Hill Mine Trail. It was a perfect day reaching 74 degrees accompanied with lupine, foothill poppies, checker lilies, shooting stars butterflies and bees! The 3rd Saturday hikes will continue next month covering Birds of […]

“The springtime race for both full- and half-marathoners begins at the Bothe Valley State Park picnic area, just off Highway 29. From there, the out-and-back course for the 13.1-mile race takes runners westward out along the park trails, including Coyote Peak Trail, South Fork Trail, Ritchey Canyon Trail and Redwood Trail. Many of the single-track […]

2019 Update to the Master Plan draft  We are interested in receiving feed back on the Master Plan over the next five months. Please email info@napaoutdoors.org with any comments.

Thank you to all the volunteers who came out to help plant seedlings at The Cove.  

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  The geology hike at Mt. Saint Helena was a success! We learned about the formation of the mountain, the vacant mines, revived Robert Louis Stevenson’s encounters at the mountain, and it snowed! Hope to see you next month for the Wildflower hike at Oat Hill Mine Trail- March 16th @10:00!

A handful of outdoor enthusiasts gathered in Napa County’s Skyline Wilderness Park almost 30 years ago to celebrate the hoped-for birth of a local Bay Area Ridge Trail building binge. The Bay Area Ridge Trail is to be a continuous 550-mile trail ringing the nine-county Bay Area, a kind of mini, regional version of the […]

Photographs via NorCal Wild are taken by Jerry Dodrill

….“There used to be mills in Yountville, in Calistoga, and up in Chiles Valley,” Grassi said. “All those are gone. This is the only one that’s survived, which makes it special. … It’s a treasure to have here, so we need to be good stewards and protect it for future generations.”… Click here to continue […]