The Hike:

Yolo County bought this 614-acre ranch around 2000 or so. It was a wonderful purchase, since it linked up Camp Haswell Park to Bureau of Land Management public land on Blue Ridge.

Trails have not been developed yet, but there is one existing trail which leads from the base of the hill at the highway, up to a high point which is a scenic overlook of the Capay Valley and Rumsey Canyon. It's steep up to the spur ridge to the overlook, rising 1700 feet in 2 miles. The overlook is a high knoll on the ridge, that was flattened during one of the recent fires on the property. Just getting up the the ridge is a 900-foot climb in 0.8 miles. So it can be steep!

Distance: 4 mile round trip, if you go all the way to the overlook and back. Some continue on a fire break up toward Blue Ridge and Fiske Peak. A portion of this is bushwhacking up to the ridge, once the fire break ends.

How to get there: 

From Yolo county, Woodland and Davis, take Highway 16 up the Capay Valley. Pass through Capay, Guinda, and Rumsey. Camp Haswell Park will be on your right, just after Rumsey. After you pass Camp Haswell, you will go around the bend and pass over a bridge over Cache Creek.

After crossing the Highway 16 bridge over Cache Creek, park on the side of the road immediately after the bridge, on the north side of the road.

The hike starts at a gate on the south side of the road, immediately before the bridge, so you will have to walk back across the bridge to reach the trail. There is no parking directly at the trailhead.

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