Today, I decided to explore the furthest northeast reach of Napa County, an area I have never traveled to in my 35 years of living in Napa. In the past, this area has been the domain of various combinations of gun nuts, hunters, off-roaders, and boozers . More recently, much of the area has been closed to vehicles and is now designated as The Knoxville Wildlife Area. It is an important corridor for wildlife such as bears, mountain lions, and eagles. The area contains important and threatened habitat types including oak woodlands and serpentine chaparral. The trail I took was a six mile out and back on Zim Zim Creek.
Hard to tell unless you click on the photo, but this is a human assisted eagle nest off of the Berryessa Knoxville Road.
On the same road was this unfortunate rattlesnake.
Zim Zim Creek was mostly dry. This area would be in its glory in the spring.
The area was also very desolate - I never saw another person the whole time on the trail.
Here are the remains of an old cabin about 3 miles in.
Where's Bambi?
Another view of this rugged land.
Lake Berryessa looking quite sedate, about 8 miles south of Zim Zim creek. Hasta luego.
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