Crane Creek Regional Park is a regional park

Regional park

Regional park is a term used for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreational use or other reason, and under the administration of a form of local government.-Definition:...

 east of Rohnert Park, California

Rohnert Park, California

Rohnert Park is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco. The population at the 2010 United States Census was 40,971. It is an early planned city, modeled directly after Levittown, New York and Levittown, Pennsylvania. Rohnert Park is the...

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United States

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 which is maintained by the Sonoma County Regional Parks Department. It covers an area of 128 acre (52 ha) at 38.346°N 122.645°W. The park entrance is at 6107 Pressley Road.

Facilities and features

The park features numerous unpaved trails suitable for hiking

Hiking

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, including:

• Creek Trail
• Hawk Ridge Trail
• Lupine Trail
• Poppy Trail
• Sunset Trail

There is also a loop trail (Fiddleneck Trail, Buckeye Trail, Northern Look Trail) suitable for bicycling or horseback riding

Equestrianism

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. There are picnic tables and latrines near the parking area. Crane Creek

Crane Creek (California)

Crane Creek is a stream in Sonoma County, California, USA which rises in the northern Sonoma Mountains. This watercourse flows through Crane Canyon and the Crane Creek Regional Park situated on the northwestern flank of Sonoma Mountain...

flows through the park from southeast to northwest.

History

The land, originally homesteaded by Robert Crane in 1852, was purchased by the county in 1975 using grant money from Land and Water Conservation Funds. A botanical study performed in 1991 found significant damage to the wildflower meadows. This finding resulted in the exclusion of bicycles and horses from the meadow areas.