A Little Help from Our Friends
In spring 2011, the bad news about California's state parks hit: 70 parks were slated for closure by July 2012, including 18 in the Bay Area. Since then, volunteers, nonprofits,...
Tag: Henry W. Coe State Park
Coe’s Fire Followers
The 2007 Lick Fire was a firestorm that consumed 47,000 acres, most of it in Henry W. Coe State Park, east of Gilroy. Just days after the fire, park volunteers...
Act Now to Save California State Parks
Now's the time to help save our California state parks from imminent closure under Governor Schwarzenegger's budget plan!
Update: Expanding Reservoirs
2003 “What’s a Lake Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” While examining the recreational and habitat potential of East Bay reservoirs in 2003, we also looked at two...
Coe Kaleidoscope
When it comes to wildflowers, you can’t do any better than a visit to Henry Coe, Northern California’s largest state park. Winslow Briggs, who wrote the book on the park’s...
The Lost Trails of Santa Clara
According to the ranchers and cowboys who ran cattle in the rugged Diablo Range southeast of San Jose, Sada Sutcliffe Coe (1910-1979) could ride a horse as well, if not...
Bullet Trains in the Back Country?
Late last year, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) withdrew its controversial proposed Central Valley-Bay Area routes that would have girdled Henry Coe State Park and the adjacent Orestimba Wilderness....
Bullet Train Through Henry W. Coe State Park and Orestimba Wilderness
Where can you find more than 80,000 acres of wildlands with hundreds of miles of trails only 36 miles from San Jose? In Henry W. Coe State Park, the adventurer...
More Dams Coming?
Despite their recreational and functional value, most reservoirs come at a cost. To build a reservoir, we must drown a valley. In the Bay Area, that probably entails flooding valuable...
