Getting there From Escondido California: Take Valley Parkway, east to Lake Wohlford Road, turn right.
Go up the hill, past the lake about 3 miles, turn right on Paradise Mountain Road, at the first stop sign you encounter.
Continue on Paradise Mtn. Road. It ends at Los Hermanos Ranch Road, turn right, prepare to....
Take the first immediate jog left onto Kiavo Road, drive to the bottom of the hill The entrance to Hellhole Canyon Preserve is to the left at the end of Kiavo Drive.
We do not recommend the use of MapQuest or other online mapping services yet, as the maps are not reliable due to unmapped roads and private road access restrictions. Some phone numbers to try for directions should you get lost ….

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Open Space

County-wide our open space is disappearing. Plants, animals and humans need space to roam and recreate. Will you donate to our Open Space Campaign which is used to purchase land to expand the preserve? Every little bit helps. Thank you!

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Plants List

A plant group has been formed to help conduct a botanical survey of the park and to create an interpretive hiking trail for visitors. The interpretive hiking trail will be posted with signs identifying plants and presenting interesting facts about them, including their Native American names and uses. If you are interested in joining our plant group, please call Judy Zanolli at (760) 751-1870.
These are plants we project may be found in the Canyon. You can join our Plant Group to help us identify them!

San Diego Adolphia Adolphia californica

Jepsen pg. 932, 939

(3)

Chaparral, css

Photos:

calflora.net

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Rainbow Manzanita Arctostaphylos rainbowensis  

(3)

Chaparral

Photos & Description:

Las Pilitas

 
Nevin’s Barberry Berberis nevinii
(Mahonia nevinii)		 Jepsen pg. 363, 365

(1)

Washes in Chaparral

 Photos:
UC Berkeley
Descriptions:
Sierra Club
Orcutt’s Brodiaea Brodiaea orcuttii Jepson pg. 1182, 1187

(2)

Grassland near streams, vernal pools

Photos:
UC Berkeley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Summer Holly Comarostaphylus diversifolia diversifolia Jepson pg. 559

(2)

Chaparral

Photos:

calflora.net

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego

 
Blochman’s Dudleya Dudleya blochmaniae ssp. Blochmaniae

Jepson pg. 527, 529

(?)

Open, rocky slopes, serpentine to clay – unlikely for Hellhole as usually below 450 meters elev.

Photos: calflora.net

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Heart-Leaved Pitcher Sage Lepichinia cardiophylla Jepson pg. 715, 717

(2)

Chaparral 600-1200 meters elev.

Photos:UC Berkeley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Spreading Navarretia

Navarretia fossalis

Jepson pg. 847

  

Photos:
UC Berkeley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Chaparral Beargrass Nolina cismontane

Jepson Pg. 1205

  

Photos: UC Berkeley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Engelmann Oak

Quercus engelmannii

 Jepson. 661, 663  

Photos:
UC Berkeley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
San Miguel Savory Satureja chandleri  

(3)

Chaparral, rocky slopes

Photos:
UC Berkeley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Gander’s Ragwort Senecio ganderi

Jepson. 338, 341

(2)

Chaparral, burned areas

Photos:
UC Berkley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego
Parry’s Tetra Coccus (shrub)

Tetracoccus dioicus

Jepson. 576,577

(2)

Dry slopes, chaparral below 1000 meters

Photos:
UC Berkeley

Descriptions:
Sierra Club San Diego

 

 

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