canyon parks
Feb. 15th, 2004 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clickieToday Tom and I went for a walk in Leona Canyon Regional Park, a tiny park (relatively speaking) that consists of a canyon that is sandwiched between two ridgetop subdivisions. You start out at the top, amongst the houses of the city, and descend very quickly into a pocket of nature. So peaceful.
It reminded me of Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco, which Tom took me to last year. Glen Canyon in October was much more dry and dusty, but still beautiful in a chapparal sort of way, while Leona Canyon in February is green and growing, albeit with lots of invasive Scotch broom everywhere.
It's surprising to find so many little pockets of undeveloped nature in urban cities like Oakland and SF. Granted, canyon parks are probably still around because they're too steep to build on, but that can be said for a lot of the parks and open spaces of the Bay Area. I'm just glad that the local governments saved them for parks before anyone figured out how to build on steep slopes. It's nice to live in an area with so many parks and preserves.
It reminded me of Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco, which Tom took me to last year. Glen Canyon in October was much more dry and dusty, but still beautiful in a chapparal sort of way, while Leona Canyon in February is green and growing, albeit with lots of invasive Scotch broom everywhere.
It's surprising to find so many little pockets of undeveloped nature in urban cities like Oakland and SF. Granted, canyon parks are probably still around because they're too steep to build on, but that can be said for a lot of the parks and open spaces of the Bay Area. I'm just glad that the local governments saved them for parks before anyone figured out how to build on steep slopes. It's nice to live in an area with so many parks and preserves.
