Caspers Wilderness Park (P)

The easy walk will be on flat paved roads and dirt trails.  We will cover the less-used parts of this delightfully wooded park, starting at the Old Corral Picnic area.  Caspers Wilderness Park is a prime location especially for hearing and learning bird sounds. For decades this has been an essential field trip location used by Sylvia Gallagher in her sounds classes. We will be there at the perfect time of year (and time of day) for seeing and hearing birds.

FROM I-5 IN SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: Exit on Ortega Hwy. and drive east 8 miles. The park entrance is on the left. Ask the attendant at the gate for a map and directions to the Old Corral Picnic Area near the far end of the main park road. Assemble by 8am in the parking lot just to the right of the conspicuous windmill at the sign saying, “GUIDED NATURE WALK MEETS HERE.”

If the park is closed, as it often is after recent heavy rains, those who register you will receive an email with an alternative birding location.

($5 Entry fee or OC Parks pass.)

Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, 33401 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano 92675