Hiking Butano State Park

When our friends suggested hiking at Butano State Park, I was surprised to hear about it - since I never heard of it before. It was only 80 minutes away from Los Gatos (so nearby).

When we arrived, we decided to follow some of the suggestions from Alltrails.com:

• Start from the Park Entrance parking lot
• Follow the Six Bridges trail south toward the Ano Nuevo trail
• At the intersection with Ano Nuevo, follow the Ano Nuevo trail East toward the Olmo Fire Road
• At Olmo Fire Road, turn  right, walking a short section
• At the intersection with Goat Hill Trail, follow Goat Hill Trail north until fire road
• Turn right at Fire Road and then walk a short distance
• At the intersection with Little Butano Creek trail, get on the Little Butano Creek trail
• At the intersection with the Fire Road, walk to the park entrance

We decided to shorten the hike, as we were running out of time, and everyone was tired from the steep ascent in the Ano Nuevo trail. At Goat Hill Trail, we turned left and walked toward the fire road, taking it all the way back to the park entrance.

I also tracked my progress on Strava and had an excellent recording of my hike on Relive.
This 3.3-mile shortened hike took us 1:50 hours with an ascent of 940 ft.

After the hike, we stopped for lunch and coffee at the tiny village of  Pescadero. We thought about eating pizza there, but the pizza restaurant burned down.

I saw a cool car parked next to the Downtown Local coffee shop. The "Mocha" I ordered was so-so, but the beautiful 3-wheeled vehicle with a V-twin was something to admire.

I had never seen a car like that, and it was beautiful.