Dale Matson
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Hike Route
Total round trip distance
is about 5 miles. Beginning altitude 1,076’. 790’ climb back from river. Total
time: about 3:45 with lunch at the river. The river is the only water source on
the trail. I didn’t go far past the double bridge and then turned around. There
is a use trail down to the river before the bridge.
This hike begins from the same parking
area you would take to the San Joaquin River Gorge Bridge. However this is not
the San Joaquin River Trail. You leave the parking area, cross the street and
begin where the sign states “San Joaquin River Trail”. As you head south
(downstream) you will not see the river for about 1.5 miles as you travel
through grassland and areas where there are cattle grazing on BLM land by
permit.
You will also pass a huge
water tower that is a part of the electric company generating area below the
trail that can’t be seen from the trail. The generating area can be seen from
the Wellbarn trail that crosses the SJR Trail and leads to the Temperance Flat
area.
I actually prefer this hike
to the gorge trail that is more traveled with fewer views and no flat sections.
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