Hiking & Wildflowers in Northern California’s Largest State Park

Go off the beaten path to Henry W. Coe State Park, a lightly traveled yet notable 87,000-acre park. Offering ridges as high as 3500 feet elevation, “Coe Park” offers 250 miles of interconnecting trails and old ranch roads. Trail runners delight in the versatile routes passing through meadows, forests, ponds, and creeks. Apart from some steep grades, this route is mostly runnable and absolutely hikeable. Rolling hillside views from the smooth and, at times, challenging singletrack make for wonderful scenery and a pleasant run. After rainy winters, wildflowers bloom in abundance February – March. By April, the landscape is splashed with dazzling colors of blue lupine and golden California poppies. Later in the spring, Mariposa lilies, larkspur, wild hyacinth and Ithuriels’s spear appear. The variety and richness of the flora, paired with the remote, untouched nature of Coe Park make it a memorable and brag-worthy outing.