HIKE: 👣🧭🎒🥾- Tecolote Canyon - Level Moderate - Social Pace - 15 Max

Hike: Telecote Canyon -

Distance: 6 miles
Terrain: Rocking Terrain - Wear Hiking shoes
Elevation: 538 gain
Classification: Moderate

What to bring: WATER, a snack, sunscreen, hat, camera

Tecolote Canyon was created in 1978 after residents of Linda Vista and Clairemont joined forces to oppose a plan to turn the canyon into a sanitary landfill and a city operations yard. It had been previously used for grazing cattle until 1953 and then as a gravel pit for the construction of I-5. The 900-acre park today has a nature center with information about the canyon and the various plants and animals found there.

What to Bring: PLENTY OF WATER, snacks, hat, sunscreen and your fun personalities.

Tecolote Canyon Trails from The Nature Center.
N32.77573, W117.19747
From I-5 take the Sea World Drive/Tecolote Road Exit. Go east on
Tecolote Road to the end (about 1/2 a mile) to find the Tecolote Canyon Natural Park and Nature Center

Please note the following:
KNOW YOUR LIMITS.
Our organizers are not tour guides, we're not rangers. Going out with us is the same as going out with a few friends. Expect the same risks, take the same precautions.
As organizers, we will do our best to give accurate descriptions of the hikes we post.
If you're a beginning hiker, a hike's elevation and distance may not mean much to you. Likewise, difficulty ratings are subjective, and a hike that is "easy" to one person may be "moderate" to another.
Err on the side of caution.
You're much better off going on a hike that's too easy for you than a hike that's too hard or too dangerous for you. As you go on more hikes with us, you'll become more familiar with our ratings and our descriptions, and you'll learn more about your own limits.

Ultimately, it's up to you to keep yourself safe out there.

You're an adult. Hike within your abilities*.*