Park
Coastal Access Monarch Butterfly Preserve
3 locals recommend,
Location
2-98 Monarch Ln
Baywood-Los Osos, CA
Los Osos
Tips from locals
Beautiful, peaceful and easy hike/walk just across Pecho Valley Rd from your front door. Note: use caution when crossing Pecho. Follow the trail around the water tank to the trees and turn right once you reach the no dogs sign to walk through the grove, near the golf course and do a loop back up Fresno street. When you’ve gone 3/4 of a mile, as you follow the trail along the golf course fence, you will come out to a clearing with a beautiful view of the bay and a bench on the slope to enjoy the view, meditate or just be. It’s about 2.4 miles round trip or just 1.5 if you walk to the bench and view and turn back. This walk is beautiful any time of day, not busy and shady for half the distance. About half the trail is sandy, so not wheel friendly. For a more strenuous hike and to get to a beautiful deserted beach section of Montana de Oro, instead of turning right at the NO dogs sign, follow the trail straight and it will take you over a very large dune. You will be rewarded with a beautiful beach and you will likely be the only people there. You can walk left down the beach two miles to get to Hazard Canyon reef, which has nice tide pools. Beware of swimming as the current is pretty rough.
Beautiful, peaceful and easy hike/walk just across Pecho Valley Rd from your front door. Note: use caution when crossing Pecho. Follow the trail around the water tank to the trees and turn right once you reach the no dogs sign to walk through the grove, near the golf course and do a loop back up Fr…
Walk through the eucalyptus trees and follow the sandy trail to the sand dunes...hike up the big hill to see a gorgeous view. Keep heading down to the secluded beach.