On Friday, March 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM we will hike the Johnson Ranch Loop in south San Luis Obispo.  As you can see in the track shown below, this hike begins in a clockwise direction "fighting" the Coriolis Force until we do a double-reversal and hike upwards in a counter-clockwise direction until we re-intersect the prior course and continue to the end in a clockwise direction.  This is a SOFT hike on the Bik Hardness Scale.  The distance is 3.6 miles with a elevation change of only 250 feet.  It will take under 2 hours to complete.  We will cross open grasslands with patches of oak woodlands.  Each loop rises, descends, then rises again giving us a cumulative UP way point total of 610 feet making up for its low overall elevation change.

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To Get There  - See annotated satellite image below.  If coming from the North, take Hwy 101 South and exit on South Higuera Street.  At the end it passes under Hwy 101 at which point you turn right onto Ontario Rd. which leads the parking lot.  From locations in southern SLO the best approach is to just get onto South Higuera.

 

If coming from the South on Hwy 101, you take the Higuera Street exit. Pay attention, this gets complicated.  After taking the exit turn to South Higuera, turn left onto Clover Ridge, then left again under Hwy 101, go a short distance and turn right onto Ontario Rd., and right again into the parking lot.