Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve

Lovely hike, the best part of this hike is it’s reasonably green, first half of the hike. Also you can see beautiful river in the starting point. When you reached top of the hill, there is about 11 miles of hiking trail. Also, it’s possible to do biking but that will be hard. You can also see the reservoir that is used for emergency purpose and the amount of water it can store will be enough for six months. If you walk through overlook park, you will see the lake hodge in the eastern part of vantage point. The parking is quite challenge, there are two parking lots but fills quickly so look for the parking on the side of road.

We did a beautiful 5.5mile hike here. We started with the Botanical trail which then merged with the Way Up trail. It had a decent incline, but became less steep towards the top. There were a lot of other trails we could have taken to lengthen our hike, but we were happy going over to the overlook of the dam. I loved that the hike starts/ends by a river. It was a great place to sit and recharge with a snack.

Great Place To Hike, The trails are well kept, wide and clean, the scenery is absolutely beautiful, it is truly amongst the best hiking trails in San Diego, it is also open most days of the year. I highly recommend it.