Go south on Clinton Keith Road five miles to the Santa Rosa Plateau visitor center ... The large parking lot for the Vernal Pool Trail is open from sunrise to sunset daily. Out of your car ...

The trail includes a boardwalk over a huge vernal ... land bank to offset housing or other development of the land. Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve’s primary purpose is to protect the ...

Seasonal vernal pools have returned to the Santa Rosa Plateau. Rob Hicks, reserve interpreter for the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve near Murrieta, said the wetland feature appears after ...

SANTA ROSA PLATEAU — There is magic here ... Since then,about 60,000 students have walked the trails along with theplateau’s volunteer docents. About 7,000 students make the trip each year ...

Every year, more than 50,000 people visit the reserve to hikeand bike its trails, Hicks said ... “One of the species (Santa Rosa Plateau fairy shrimp) lives onlyon the plateau and is found ...