1/23/2010

Maple Springs Rd is located at the end of Silverado Canyon Rd in Orange County, Cleveland National Forest.  This trail leads to the top of Santiago/Modjeska Peak.  The trail (which is really a paved fire road for the first couple of miles) is used by hikers, mountain bikers, and sometimes cars or motorcycles. This area was burned back in the 2007 Santiago Fire but looks great now.  The area is opened back up to motorized vehicles as of 5/31/10, use caution when walking the road.

Flowers on the creek bank at the parking lot, 5/31/10	Creek, near the parking lot, 5/31/10	At the first creek crossing past the iron gate, 5/31/10
5/31/10	One of several small dams, 5/31/10	5/31/10
Creek view, pink flowers in the foreground are California Buckwheat, 5/31/10	Another view of the creek at one of the many crossings, 5/31/10	Looking back down the canyon, 5/31/10

5/31/10	Deerweed, 5/31/10	Sticky Monkey Flower (the pale green leaves are White Sage), 5/31/10	Matilija Poppy, 5/31/10	Mulefat (the stalks were used by Native Americans to make arrow shafts), 5/31/10
Black Sage, 5/31/10	5/31/10	Poison Oak, 5/31/10	Poison Oak Closeup, 5/31/10	5/31/10
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Monkey flowers & California Sagebrush growing out of the rock face, 5/31/10	5/31/10	California Buckwheat, 5/31/10	White Sage in bloom, 5/31/10	5/31/10

Maple Springs Road, Jan 2010 (3 years after the Santiago fire)	Maple Springs Road, 10/2/05 Above:  heading up Maple Springs Rd., view of the side of the road on the right.	Maple Springs Road, 10/2/05
	King Snake on Maple Springs Road, 10/2/05 Above:  a small king snake on the road.  These are harmless.  A passing hiker picked it up and moved off the road so it wouldn't get ran over by cars or bikes.	Silverado Canyon, Maple Springs Road, 10/2/05 Above, heading up Maple Springs Rd., view of the hillsides on the left.