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For our first Outdoors issue, we talk about local Hipcamp spots [6], bears at Lopez Lake [8], and COVID-19’s impact on county trails [10] BY NEW TIMES STAFF

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GLAMPING HEAVEN Branch Mill Organic Farms outside Arroyo Grande offers two tarp tent campsites, complete with beds, bathrooms, showers, and an outdoor kitchen.

A better kind of isolation

Amid closures at regional and state parks, local Hipcamps offer respite to those looking to get out and get away BY KASEY BUBNASH

riving just a few miles out of Arroyo Grande and up to Branch Mill Organic Farm feels like entering a better, calmer world. A little produce stand greets you at the entry of the farm, where the midday sun peaks through the branches of lush oak and fruit trees, burning away the few remaining drops of morning dew. The smell of fresh-cut herbs and blooming flowers fills the air. A friendly black cat meows as he makes his way leisurely over to a nearby deck, where he effortlessly hops up onto the platform to rub his cheek against a post. Maybe, if you’re lucky, he’ll eventually meander over to you. It’s quiet and still and secluded here. It feels more than just 3 miles outside of

Arroyo Grande and much, much farther from the screens and stressors that have come to define pandemic life. Owner Ruth Madocks knows her land is special, and, fortunately for us, she’s willing to share it. With Madocks at the helm, Branch Mill has become more than just a local organic farm, operating simultaneously as a community event venue, educational space, and, most recently, a private campground. About two years ago Madocks signed up for Hipcamp, an app and website that allows property owners to rent out their land to campers. It’s a similar concept to that of Airbnb: Landowners can make a little extra money on the side, and campers can experience a place that wouldn’t

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otherwise be available to the general public. There are thousands of campsites nationwide listed on the app, ranging from cabins and glampsites that go for hundreds of dollars a night, to primal tent sites that don’t even have bathrooms. Hipcamp has been around since 2013, but it’s gained popularity locally during the pandemic as repeated closures of state and county campgrounds left Central Coast residents without anywhere else to camp. “It’s really providing a service for people that’s not available in other places,” Madocks told New Times. “Even as we open up with COVID, still a lot of people would rather be here than be camping out at a place with a bunch of people they don’t know.” Madocks has two sites on her farm that she rents out for $90 a night. With large canvas tents, beds, showers, bathrooms, and an outdoor kitchen all provided in the package, the Branch Mill Hipcamping experience definitely leans toward

glamping. Visitors can tour the farm, feed the animals, and order boxes of fresh produce and eggs. Recently her clientele has largely been made up of health care workers and families from San Francisco and Los Angeles looking to get outside. Kids in particular love the farm, and Madocks said that’s true especially now, when they’ve spent so much of the last year cooped up staring at screens. “The main thing is people love to bring their kids and get a tour and learn about organic farming,” she said. “And so our goal is to make this an educational place. I feel like the Hipcamp fits in with that vision that we had.” SLO County’s campgrounds are open to everyone now, but SLO County Parks and Recreation Director Nick Franco said the pandemic made for a roller coaster of a year. The county operates five campgrounds: the Oceano County Campground, Coastal Dunes RV Park, Santa Margarita Lake, Lopez Lake, and El Chorro Regional Park and Campground. All five, Franco said, closed for the first time due to COVID-19 on April 2, 2020. They reopened on May 18 to SLO County residents on a first come, first served basis, an effort to prevent nonessential travel. Then the campgrounds opened to everyone on Sept. 17 only to close completely a few months later at the beginning of December. On Feb. 4 of this year, SLO County’s campgrounds once again opened to everyone. Franco said closures had a serious financial impact. SLO County’s regional parks are self-funded, meaning Parks and Rec doesn’t get tax or general fund revenue to support staff or maintenance costs. With the campgrounds closed to tourists for much of 2020, Franco said SLO County Parks and Rec took about a $2 million hit. HIPCAMP continued page 8

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Hipcamp is an app and website that allows property owners to rent out their land to campers. Check it out at hipcamp.com. Other camping options include SLO County facilities, which opened to all campers on Feb. 4. Check out the available sites at slocountyparks.com/camp. And Santa Barbara County parks camping information is available at countyofsb.org/parks/campingparks.sbc.

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Bears are a growing issue at Lopez Lake— is COVID-19 camping to blame? BY PETER JOHNSON

t became a near nightly occurrence last summer. As the bustling, sold-out campgrounds at Lopez Lake fell to a hush in the wee hours of the mornings, American black bears would lumber onto the premises in search of food—scraps on the ground, open bags of trash, or coolers left outside. “The campers are the big thing. The more they leave stuff out, the more the bears get comfortable,” said Matt Mohle, a supervising park ranger at Lopez Lake, which borders the Los Padres National Forest southeast of Arroyo Grande. “Some people will walk up to the bear dumpster and then set their trash on top of the bear dumpster, or next to it.” Rangers at the popular San Luis Obispo County park know the issue well. They’re the first to respond to bear sightings and are tasked with both chasing them out and educating campers on the importance of a clean campsite. Not everybody listens. “We’re the problem. We’re in their territory,” Mohle said. “We do a lot of education, but there are still a lot of people who don’t know how to properly camp. The bears always go to the dirtiest campsites.” Lately, bears seem to be getting more than enough food to justify their return. While black bears have long lived near the lake with more than 350 developed campsites, the number of bear encounters at Lopez has gone up significantly over the past few summers. Last year, the enthusiasm for camping amid COVID-19 only brought more visitation to the park, and with that, more breadcrumbs for bears. “The bear sightings and interactions tend to fluctuate from year to year. Right now, we’re in a cycle where there are a lot of bears around,” Mohle said. While no altercations have been reported between bears and campers, their growing presence is enough to concern county officials. The bears seem be getting more accustomed to people and the campground, Mohle said. They’re harder to scare away and are more “tactful” in searching for food, which has led to a few instances of property damage to RVs and trucks. It’s the kind of problem that has spiraled out of control in popular national parks like Yosemite—which is exactly the kind of situation SLO County

now. But he also acknowledged that the pandemic may have brought out lessexperienced campers to the park who may not be as educated about how to behave in the outdoors. The spike in visitation to parks and natural areas during COVID-19 is a phenomenon that Bryant Baker, conservation director at Los Padres ForestWatch, said he’s pondered quite a bit over the past year. After the initial stretch last spring where millions stayed at home to guard against the virus, people then flocked to the outdoors once restrictions were lifted. What the impacts of that dramatic swing were on wildlife—positive and negative—are still under study. “It made for a pretty unique situation that I don’t think we’ve seen before in recent decades,” Baker said. “I think a lot of people got to experience places that they haven’t before and hopefully gained a better appreciation for our public lands we have in the region. I think that’s been a positive. “And we have to wait and see if there’re any long-term damage from that surge period where there were maybe more people in certain areas than those places could handle,” he added. “We’ll have to see.” ∆

is hoping to avoid. “It’s definitely something that we take super seriously,” Mohle said. “The last thing we want to have happen is for a bear to get so comfortable that they decide they’re going to come into someone’s campsite with people there and start ripping through their cooler right in front of the people and accidentally hurt somebody.” The tactics used to drive a bear out of the park range from banging pots and pans together, to sounding an airhorn, to calling the Department of Fish and Wildlife, whose rangers will come out and shoot them with beanbag rounds if necessary. “It’s not very much fun for the campers to have to watch that, but it’s super important to make the bears afraid of humans,” Mohle said. “They need to have a healthy sense of fear, otherwise that’s when it becomes an issue.” Mohle noted that the county parks department has taken steps to curb Assistant Editor Peter Johnson can be the problem over the years, including reached at pjohnson@newtimesslo.com. installing bear dumpsters all PHOTO COURTESY OF MARIE-LUISE GOERITZ around the park. “We used to have freestanding trash cans. We’ve eliminated all of those,” he said. Rangers also remind campers to lock their food and coolers in their cars and throw away all trash before they go to sleep. Beyond that, Mohle said the next step would be install individual bear boxes at the camp sites. That’s an expensive proposition that the county hopes doesn’t become necessary. “We have close to 400 campsites here and to put into place 400 bear boxes, that would be a massive effort and a significant amount of money,” Mohle said. Mohle said he doesn’t believe that the surge in interest in the outdoors over last summer amid COVID-19 played a major role in exacerbating the bear ‘THE BEARS’ A black bear (pictured) is discovered problem, reiterating that it’s hiding in a tree in residential Los Osos last October. Similar black bear encounters are increasingly common been a challenge at Lopez at Lopez Lake’s campground, raising concerns. Lake for multiple summers

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That projected shortfall evened out a little bit when the county’s campgrounds fully reopened in September and October of 2020, when Franco said they saw a 78 percent increase in camping compared to the same months in 2019. Now his department is looking at something closer to a $1 million budget shortfall. With SLO County’s sites fully reopened, Franco said Parks and Rec is doing some extra bathroom cleanings and trash pickups. Not much else needs to be done to keep things coronavirus safe, he said. The campsites are spread out, they’re limited to small groups, and it’s all outdoors. “Camping in and of itself is pretty consistent with COVID restrictions,” he said. That’s how Darin Fiechter sees it too. Darin and his wife, Sierra, own a 43-acre ranch near Buellton and Jump On The School Bus, a Santa Barbara-based wedding and wine tour transportation service. The couple just happened to sign up for Hipcamp about a month before COVID-19 hit and decimated their transportation business. “Hipcamp is seriously how we stayed alive,” Darin said. At Freedog Farms, Darin and Sierra offer 10 campsites, where visitors can put up tents, RVs, buses, or cars. They have propane fire pits at each site and a big community fire pit, bathrooms, an art studio, and mineral tubs, and they offer tours, hikes, and fresh eggs. The sites are all well spaced out and private, he said, and it’s been busy through the pandemic. He’s had visitors cry upon arrival because they could let their dogs off leash, or because they finally got their kids out of a tiny apartment somewhere in a nearby city. COVID-19 is serious and important, Darin said, but so is mental health. “I think what’s cool is that it allowed us to feel sane through all this,” he said, “because people were coming and they were happy.” ∆ Staff Writer Kasey Bubnash can be reached at kbubnash@newtimesslo.com.

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sk any SLO County resident what they love most about living on the Central Coast, and their response will likely point to the region’s vast amount of open space and the gorgeous weather. The appreciation for outdoor recreation was reinvigorated last year when the public health crisis resulted in stay-at-home orders that effectively closed entertainment and restaurant industries; the orders also came with a recommendation to get outside at a safe distance from others. Sheltering at home also halted campers from visiting state parks, with the exception of day-use hiking; however, local and state health officials recommended individuals stay in their respective communities to slow the spread of the virus. Shaun Cooper, senior planner for the SLO County Parks and Recreation Department, said the department saw a tremendous increase in local residents exploring what was in their broader backyard. “I think we’ve seen a direct correlation in the time period of COVID-19 to our spike in use. The use we see is typically seasonal, so we get more users in the summer,” he said. “But with COVID, we saw spikes later on in the year and through the winter.” One of the more popular trails in the county that tracks its daily bicycle and pedestrian visitors is the Bob Jones Trail. Cooper said the trail has an electric counter that’s been logging visitor data for the past three years—the data is helpful when SLO County Parks and Recreation applies for grants for its outdoor spaces.

Before the pandemic, the trail would see an average of 800 to 1,000 pedestrians on the weekends and anywhere from 300 to 600 pedestrians during the week. The visits fluctuated depending on the season, day, and weather. From March 2020 to June 2020 alone, the trail averaged 500 to 800 pedestrians on weekdays and saw more than 1,000 weekend visitors. Those averages remained steady throughout the year and have continued into 2021. If a resident is looking for a trail that isn’t as heavily trafficked, Cooper recommends checking out what the county has to offer on its website. Under the “trails” section of the website is a link to an app that displays all the outdoor recreation spaces and an interactive map along with it. Along with the location of the trailhead, the app details the length of the trail, its difficulty level, who you’re sharing the road with, and trails in the same vicinity. To switch up your local trail experience, Cooper suggests logging on to the interactive map and checking out High Mountain located in the Santa Lucia Mountains east of Lopez Lake. According to the county’s app, the High Mountain trail is 1.1 miles with a moderate difficulty level, and visitors will share the road with bikers and horseback riders. The trail is perfect for cool and sunny days, as it begins in dense woodland that quickly opens up to green and lush landscape with panoramic views. Doug Carscaden, aka Ranger Doug, is the ranger service supervisor for the city of SLO Parks and Recreation Department. He said that of the 4,000 acres of land that the department takes

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care of, 57 miles of it is allocated to trails and roads that are open for public use. To get the community out onto the more remote locations, Ranger Doug said, the department created the #pixonpeaks challenge and social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in 2015. Pixonpeaks accounts are updated with photos taken by community members, and the platform is also used to communicate hiking challenges throughout the year as well as updates on trail closures. He said the program has been successful to this day and is still introducing hiking enthusiasts to new locations, such as the Irish Hills or Islay Hill. Islay Hill is a modest 776-foot summit that lasts about 1.8 miles, and the trailhead begins in a residential cul-desac. The main attraction, aside from its stunning views of the southeast side of the city and Edna Valley, is Moo with a View—a cow statue that’s standing on a post looking off into the distance through a pair of binoculars. Moo with a View was part of CowParade, which took place in September 2016 through May 2017 featuring life-sized cow works of art showcased throughout the city. The project raised funds for local charities. Unfortunately, Moo with a View was vandalized, but she’s since been restored through GoFundMe donations and was planned to reassume her rightful perch on Feb. 13. As the number of trail visitors increase, Ranger Doug said he wants to remind the community to keep the positive vibes flowing on their visit by taking care of the space they’re visiting—that includes not leaving any trash behind and throwing away their dog-waste bags. In the northern region of the county, the city of Atascadero has also seen a significant increase in visitors at the Three Bridges, Stadium Park, and Atascadero Lake trails, according to Deputy City Manager Terrie Banish. “There has been more trail activity in general as families and all ages are getting outside during the pandemic’s stay-at-home order. During the pandemic, we had the arrival of the Monolith at Stadium Park that has significantly increased trail activity, as well as more trout being restocked in Atascadero Lake Park by the Department of Fish and Wildlife,” Banish said.

Outdoors The Atascadero Land Preservation Society, an all-volunteer organization, owns and maintains the 103-acre Three Bridges Preserve. It also owns the 5 acres at the entrance to Stadium Park known as Stadium Lane, which includes the information kiosk, the Bill Shepard Native Plant Garden, and the Atascadero Land Preservation Society and Marj Mackey trails. Mike Orvis, the president of the preservation society, said he queried some people who use the Three Bridges Oak Preserve often, and the consensus is that the use has increased about 20 to 40 percent overall since the beginning of the pandemic. “Less in the early mornings, more in the late mornings and afternoons. In the early days of COVID, we definitely noticed an increase in the number of users, many of them were first-time visitors to the Three Bridges Oak Preserve and new to hiking,” Orvis said. To keep returning and new visitors safe during the pandemic, the society placed signs at trailhead entrances reminding users to social distance by keeping 6 feet minimum apart from others and to move off the trail to let others pass. “We also have one-way trail routing in the lower loop, the Oak Woodland Loop trail. It has been our experience that almost all users are respecting the one-way routing,” he said. “The one-way routing also minimizes the interaction between dogs.” The society has observed the trail itself has been wearing down faster due to increased use, and the volunteers mitigate the wear by performing regular trail maintenance. Orvis said the society has also seen more vandalism, such as native plants being ripped from the ground, trailside barriers/logs being moved, damage to rock outcroppings, the building of unsightly rock cairns, and carving on native trees. “We have also found more areas where users have short-cut the trails and gone off trail to go to the bathroom,” he said. “We believe these items reflect some users are new to hiking and maybe are not as knowledgeable or prepared as experienced hikers. We believe in good time they come better prepared and will learn good hiking and trail etiquette.” ∆ Staff Writer Karen Garcia can be reached at kgarcia@newtimesslo.com.

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