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This lake is so wonderful. The friendly people of San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara like to hang out nearby, and Aubry Creek is one of the streams close by that might be worth visiting. A glorious nearby hotel is Saratoga Oaks Lodge, and Beatty Slide is an interesting location to explore while at Lake McKenzie. Now, you may feel that's heaps but there's even more entertaining things to do here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. If time allows, Juan Bautista De Anza
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| | National Historic Trail is a national park worth checking out, and if you would like a little side trip, try Congress Springs Canyon. Whohoo, so many enjoyable things in one place! The Santa Cruz Mountains is great! Playing golf is lots of fun at Deep Cliff Golf Course, and since you're here you can take a hike along the Sequoia Nature Trail. This lake is so wonderful. If the weather is delightful, you get a nice sight of The Peak from Lake McKenzie; hiking | |
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along the Rincon Fire Road Trail is magnificent fun. You'll wish for more hours in a day to enjoy all the enjoyable things at Lake McKenzie. After a long day outdoors The Inn At Saratoga is a great spot to spend a night or two. There's
so much to do here at Lake McKenzie that you need to camp here for a while, Sanborn Park is a brilliant place for that. Don't you try to stop me, cause I'm havin' a splendid time here at Lake McKenzie. There are other places here
than Lake McKenzie, for example Howell Reservoir; you can run the rapids of San Lorenzo River. Lake McKenzie is generally a quite dried up place; of all the months in a year January is the one with the most rain, and July is when
it's the driest. Through the summer at Lake McKenzie highs are generally in the 70's. When the night sets in temperatures sink down into the 50's. High temperatures throughout the wintertime are normally in the 50's; through the dark
hours in the winter at Lake McKenzie temperatures dip to the 30's. You just can't envision the amount of outdoors fun things the Santa Cruz Mountains has to offer. Going for a hike along the Summit Trail will let you absorb the
natural beauty of this region. Lakes? Sure, Lake Ranch Reservoir is in the vicinity. If you came to camp Saratoga Springs Campground is a brilliant spot to do that, and a splendid spot for whitewater paddling is San Lorenzo River. This lake is one of the great places here in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 37.22 Longitude: -122.0517
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Summit Trail, San Mateo County, 11 miles away 3 hiking miles, 506 feet elevation difference |
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San Lorenzo River, Santa Cruz CountyCounty, 8 miles away Class II - 9.1 miles long (Boulder Creek to Felton) |
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San Lorenzo River, Santa Cruz CountyCounty, 12 miles away Class III-IV - 6 miles long (Felton to Ocean at Santa Cruz) |
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Pescadero Creek, San Mateo CountyCounty, 14 miles away Class II - 9 miles long (Portola State Park to Memorial County Park) |
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Stevens Creek Reservoir
 | 1 PHOTO Lake's conditions... |
Loch Lomond
 | Can I fish year round?...Nice lake in the Santa Cruz Mountains, great place for canoeing. No swimming allowed though, what's up with that?... |
Big Basin Redwoods State Park
 | 10 miles away Yeah, it's a pretty good place to go camping... |
San Lorenzo River
 | 11 miles away 1 PHOTO Per SC County staff, as of 12/21/09, there are two redwood trees down across the San Lorenzo, upstream of Felton, between the two highway bridge crossings at Glen Lomond Dr.... ...nish for bend in the river), a pretty place to pull out for a picnic and some hiking, is part of Henry Cowell State Park and is the last chance to exit easily on public property before Santa Cruz. An old road goes up to a large parking area on Hwy 9 here.
Approach ing the Rincon the river spreads out and may be too shallow to float; we had to walk a short distance. Also, at the remains of a concrete diversion dam, teh river splits into two channels. The left-most is the one to take as the right will leave you high and not-quite-dry, though I suppose this may change from year to year.
Where the river goes around the Hogsback there is a lot of large woody debris, including a narrow area with strainers that could be quite dangerous. Recently the county has announced that woody debris will no longer be cleared from county streams in an effort to restore our nearly extinct steelhead populations, and this may make the situation even worse. I don't know whether it will be practical to portage around the woodpile at the point where the river make its final bend toward Paradise P... |
Millpond Lake
 | 12 miles away I love the millpond its private but is always bursting with sunshine fresh air and the peacefull chirp of birds!... |
Pescadero Creek
 | 14 miles away The putin location given is in an area not open to the public, and the creek is closed to all watercraft, kayaks & inflatables included.... |
Corcoran Lagoon
 | 15 miles away 1 PHOTO This is a great beach near Sunny Cove in Santa Cruz. Very clean, not many people. Mainly locals. Great for body surfing. Love it there!... |
Foothills Mobilodge and RV Park
 | 15 miles away BEST SPOT TO CAMP OVER NIGHT IN SAN JOSE.... |
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
 | 41 miles away The phone numbers have changed since this page was posted. For more information about Golden Gate National Recreation Area, please call (415) 561-4700. For Alcatraz Tickets, please call (415) 981-ROCK [415. 981. 7625]. For Muir Woods National Monument, please call (415) 388-2595. For the Cliff House, please call (415) 561-4323. For Kirby Cove camping, please call 1-877-444-6777 or go to www.recreation.gov.Thanks.... |
Muir Woods National Monument
 | 51 miles away We want to use our GPS. WHAT is the address to place in it?... |
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