💚Green Exercise🌻🌷🌸Wildflowers Hike 🥾 Edgewood Park🏞️

​Hello Nature Lovers, Let's go for a green exercise, and meet new friends
wellness hike at Edgewood County Park enjoy beautiful wildflower displays fresh mountain air for our physical health and mental well-being😇

Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve is famous in the greater San Francisco Bay Area as the place to see fields of spring wildflowers. But the importance and meaning of the preserve to the community go beyond viewing pretty flowers.

The best time to see wildflowers at Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve in Redwood City, California is in the spring from early March to late May.
Why spring is best

• The park's grasslands are filled with colorful wildflowers

What to see

• Owl's clover, blue bush lupine, and miner's lettuce
• Blue-eyed grass, bluedicks, goldenfields, creamcups, tidytips, larkspur, and checker-bloom

How to explore

• Hike the Serpentine, Sylvan, Edgewood, and Sunset Trails Loop
• Take the Clarkia Trail to the Sunset, Serpentine, and Edgewood Trails to complete a loop

Other things to know

• Edgewood Park is famous for its native wildflowers and biodiversity
• The park's serpentine soils support rare and endangered plants and animals
• The park has 10 miles of trails
• The park also has oak woodlands, wetlands, and chaparral habitats

Additional activities

• Visit the Education Center
• Look for deer, coyotes, bobcats, and rabbits

Edgewood remains the only natural preserve in the San Mateo County park system. Its natural beauty is now enjoyed by well over 50,000 visitors every year.

Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve is a 467-acre protected area located in San Mateo County, California, United States, and is best known for its spring wildflower displays.

An unusual and harmonious concentration of ecological zones, Edgewood’s most important feature is its 160 acres of serpentine soils. Low in calcium and nitrogen, but high in magnesium and heavy metals, serpentinite is toxic to most plants. Over millennia, however, certain plants and animals have adapted to it.

Because most species brought in with European settlement cannot live in serpentine soil, such areas form natural preserves of native plants and the animals that depend on them. Any time of year, Edgewood can show how our area looked before European settlement. Edgewood can be thought of as a living museum with a window to California’s past.

Flora and Fauna
Despite its relatively small size as a protected wilderness area—only 467 acres—Edgewood offers a surprising amount of biotic diversity. Its grasslands, chaparral, coastal scrub regions, foothill woodlands, and even year-round seeps and springs support over 500 distinct plant species, three of which are federally listed as endangered or threatened. In addition, the fragile Bay Checkerspot Butterfly, also a threatened species, makes its home in the unique habitat afforded by the serpentine grasslands. The various plant communities also provide habitat for frogs, lizards, foxes, coyote, bobcat, raccoon, deer, and over 80 resident and migratory birds.

History and Status
Edgewood’s recent history is also of interest. Since 1967 various development projects have been proposed, including a state college, a recreational complex, a solar energy facility, and a golf course. The golf course proposal generated considerable debate, starting in the early 1980’s when San Mateo County acquired the land and approved plans to develop an 18-hole golf course. It was not until the summer of 1993 that the County Board of Supervisors unanimously declared Edgewood County Park a Natural Preserve, protecting it from future development. In 1997, a completely revised Master Plan was adopted, recognizing protection, preservation, and restoration of Edgewood’s natural resources as the primary management objectives.

Edgewood Park Natural Preserve contains ten miles of trails that explore its varied habitats. Most are open for equestrian use. Sylvan Trail, a non-equestrian-use trail, is popular for joggers and hikers.

The serpentine grasslands of Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve are famous for their magnificent displays of wildflowers each spring.

Meetup 1pm and Hike time: 1:30pm
*Edgewood-Canada Parking
Address: 👉3389 Edgewood Rd, Redwood City, CA 94062
👉GPS: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zoq3du5Zy1yszcnD7
Parking: Free
Level: Moderate+
Length: 6-7 miles
Elevation gain: 900ft
Route type: loop
Views: Amazing Bay Views, Wildlife, Wildflowers, lots of wild mushrooms, Forest, Birding Watching...
Dogs/pets: No! Park not allowed

Bring Smiles for Miles! Water, Layers, Snacks, Hiking Poles
Optional After hiking dinner Place coming soon...

*Encouraging carpooling, if you know each other well for everyone's safety. Please contact each other in private message not in the message board, Thanks!
https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/chbkps

💚 Support Our Group!
Thanks for joining our wellness club event, it does take time and money to make it happen. Thank you for being prepared and supportive 🌿
Our hikes, dinners, and events run thanks to member support. A small contribution is appreciated to help keep our wellness community active and fun! Thank you for helping us make every event special!

*Requested contribution suggested amount $5-$20 to keep the club going!
​Dr. Heidi will ask for the contribution during event check-in. Accepted in person. Your support helps cover the many behind-the-scenes efforts that make these events possible, including route scouting, Meetup platform fees, permits, communication with park staff and members, and planning hikes, dinners, and road trips.
This community exists because of the support and kindness of its members.

If someone chooses not to contribute or refuses the organizer’s request, they may be kindly asked to leave the event so space can be available for members who support the group.
Thank you for helping keep our wellness community positive, respectful, and active. 🌿

Our meetup events have a very positive impact on people's lives, people meet, fall in love💘 meet new friends, HAPPY, better health, less stress, anxiety, depression, isolate being alone and got extra bonus for LOVE ​💞

⚠️ Please Read Before Joining:
These hikes and group dinners are hosted voluntarily and with love for the outdoors and community. Participation is completely voluntary, and everyone joins at their own risk and responsibility.
👉 We kindly ask you to review the event details carefully — including directions, trail descriptions, and dinner spots — before joining.
Trails are part of nature and may not match everyone’s preferences. Dinner venues are selected based on group size, availability, and location. We do our best but can’t guarantee personal favorites.
🧡 Most importantly, come with an open heart, positive energy, and kindness. Let’s enjoy what we can control — good company, fresh air, and meaningful connections.

*DO NOT ATTEND if you're experiencing any cold or flu symptoms, have a compromised immune system.

*Participation in this event is strictly voluntary! The event host/organizer assumes no responsibility for any injury, damage, or loss you may incur. You join and hike entirely at your own risk.

*Hike at YOUR OWN RISK. Open trails aren't necessarily free of hazards--by entering the wilderness, you assume responsibility for your safety and must use good judgment.

*LIABILITY WAIVER: By signing up for the wellness hiking event, you hereby release its organizers, hosts, and participants from any and all liability, claims, demands or causes of action that you now have, or may have in the future, for illness, injuries, damages, and/or economic loss of any kind or nature, arising in whole or in part out of the activities, advice, or information contained herein. You agree to full responsibility for your own health issues.

*DISCLAIMER: By participating in this wellness hiking event, you understand that Meetup event Host/Organizer assumes ABSOLUTELY NO responsibility and you have to assume all at your own risk of injury, damage, and economic loss, without limitation, and release host/Organizer of all liability.
If anyone wishes to join our hike team, please answer the RSVP question every time for everyone's safety in the group. If you are unable to send me a message confirming that you are in good health and you are able to hike 7 miles without health issues we CANNOT approve you come to the hiking event.
*Please don't just walk in Thank you for your cooperation!

I'm looking forward to meeting, hiking with you and making good memories together.
Yours in good health! Dr. Heidi💝

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