🌊 Ocean Hike 5 miles 🥾 Wilder Ranch State Park 🏞️

Hello Ocean Lover, Let's meet go on a Green exercise wellness hike, enjoy the natural beauty of the mountains, beautiful ocean views for our physical health and mental well-being😇

Sometimes all you need is an easy stroll by the ocean to refresh your spirits. This track along the Pacific Ocean north of Santa Cruz is one of the best places in California to do just that.

You'll see gulls, geese, pelicans, and other waterfowl and you might hear the distant bark of passing sea lions. If your timing's right, you might even spot passing whales on their annual migrations.

Wilder Ranch State Park is a CA State Park on the Pacific Ocean coast north of Santa Cruz. The park was formerly a dairy ranch, and many of the ranch buildings have been restored for use as a museum.
https://www.santacruz.org/listings/wilder-ranch-state-park/

Meet: 1:30pm at parking lot trailhead near the restrooms
*Hike time: 2:00 pm
Wilder Ranch State Park
https://goo.gl/maps/i5B5T65wa4zjRDM99
1401 Coast Rd, Santa Cruz, CA
Parking: $10 (FREE parking pass available to pick up at any city library)
Free Park by left-side of the highway 1 by along the road & walk up
to the park trailshead few minutes

Length: 5 Miles
Level: Easy
Dog: No Dogs!
Elevation gain: 305 ft+
Route: Loop
Time: estimate 2.5-3 hours
Wear Hiking shoes
Bring Smiles for Miles, Water, Jacket, Snacks, beach blanket

Encouraging carpooling if you know each other well for everyone's safety. Please contact each other in a private message not in the message board. Thank you! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/zaws2y

*Requested contribution suggested amount $5-$20 to keep the club going!
​*Note: Thanks for joining our wellness club event, it does take time and money to make it happen. To support/keep our group alive and active, You can help! Dr.Heidi kindly asks for a contribution, accepting cash in person or Venmo *before the event ( Weak phone service on the trailhead) Please take a few minutes to contribute the link to my Venmo profile:
Beautiful Ocean https://venmo.com/HealingSea
Your contribution will help us cover our costs and make our Meetups going even better.

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 ​💞

Another bonus: touring the grounds of a farm replete with antique cars, farm machinery, and other remnants of farming life along the Pacific in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This track is very basic: just start out from the parking lot at the Wilder Ranch State Park visitors center and follow Old Cove Landing Trail along the ocean. Eventually, it turns northward again and loops back to where you started.

The trail surface is a natural surface (dirt, sand, rocks). It is typically at least 8 feet wide. There are railroad crossings ...

The whole trail is estimated to be in the mostly gentle (5% or less) grade category. All-terrain tires or motorized equipment may be needed for the surface type and grade.

*DO NOT ATTEND if you're experiencing any cold or flu symptoms, have a compromised immune system, or if you've been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19.

*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.

*We are an intermediate hike group. Please be ready to keep up hiking with us from 5 miles without any health issues.

*LIABILITY WAIVER: By signing up for the wellness walking/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 5 miles without health issues we CAN NOT 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💝