Kite Hill Wildflower Preserve

• Craig Dremann
  
  
  (July 17, 2023, 1:25 pm)

  The Kite Hill Preserve is the very best example in San Mateo County, of California's original California native grasslands and wildflower fields, as they looked 300 years ago, producing spectacular blooms of tens of millions of wildflowers March to June.
  
  Then, July to October, the spring wildflowers go dormant for the summer, and the summer flowers start bloom in patches. On a sunny summer day you can smell the scent of the white tarplants that stay green all summer.
  
  This area would look "barren" in the summer and fall because there are no irrigated lawns, as it is being restored to it original fire-safe and weed-free wild conditions. An excellent example of how the flammable weed grasses in our other open space preserves, could be converted to fire-safe wildflower meadows, with only monthly mowing and fertilizing.
  
  No bathrooms, no picnic areas and no ticks either. This is a wildflower preserve being restored to its original conditions, so your only expectation should be--an absolutely wonderful display of flowers in spring that might astound native plant enthusiasts and botanists.
  
  An interesting place for bird-watchers, with a resident population of blue birds that nest there.
  
  Trails criss-cross the 17 acre preserve, and is a very easy walk. You park along Jane Drive behind the locked gate, walk through the pedestrian gate that is always open, walk down Jane Drive, and take the first trail that runs along the I-280 fence. Nice bench further down the trail, with a beautiful view that overlooks the Stanford Hills in the distance.

• caltrain _901
  
  
  (November 12, 2022, 12:28 pm)

  It’s only accessible if you live in Woodside and I guess it’s very loud because of the freeway. It’s great to fly a kite, but be aware there’s powerlines near no drones unless you have a permit.

Kite Hill Wildflower Preserve - Jane Dr, Woodside, CA 94062

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