Adventure 008, Hike 126 - Rockville Trail

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 008, Hike 126 - Rockville Trail

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 21, 2012

Location: Fairfield CA, Rockville Regional Park

Hike Info:

Trail: Rockville Trail//Bay Area Ridge Trail

Distance: 1.4 miles

Duration: 1:04

Elevation Rise: 139'

Description:



Rockville Hills Regional Park is 633 beautiful acres of grasslands and oak woodlands, with a dense mixed broadleaf forest. The rich, biological and diverse habitats provide shelter to a variety of wildlife that makes the park their home. They did provide shades for our hikes. This park is a grassy area that overlooks Fairfield.



There are lots of named trails within this park. We did more than three trails but are counting them as three trails. One trail was as short as an eighth of a mile. So we combined named trails so it would be long enough for Thing One and Thing Two to call a trail, actually so that Thing One's conscious would be soothed.



Our adventure started from the parking lot. We soon ran into a couple looking for the shuttle to fly by. Being people to look for adventure, we also looked for the shuttle but were about 30 minutes to late. After we got to the top of the first hill we decided to go around a small, dry pond. We had also decided to try looking for some geocaches-see Adventure 79. So while we were hiking on the trail, we were looking and stumbling around for the coordinate of our very first cache. We went around the pond area, then headed to a lake area which did have water in it. We saw some Canadian geese and Herons. We noticed we were now going toward the second geocache. So off we went on the Bay Area Ridge Trail (BART) as we went around the lake.



http://www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/depts/pw/rockville_hills_regional_park_n_open_space/rockville_hills_regional_park/default.asp