Los Padres Forest: CLOSURE ORDER
Hello Friends, Due to the massive amounts of recent rainfall and subsequent forest-wide damage to trails, roads and infrastructure, the Forest Service has issued a forest-wide closure of the Los Padres Forest effective Friday January
LOS PADRES STORM UPDATE: The Good. The Bad & the Ugly
Hello Friends, First off, we hope you are all safe and dried out after all the great rains we’ve had over the past weeks. This is not news but from Big Sur to Piru we’ve
Happy Los Padres Days!
Hello Friends, Happy Holidays and what a nice start to the winter season! We’ve now had multiple storms roll through the Los Padres with rain totals across the forest over 150% of normal to date.
The Passing of a Los Padres Legend
Hello Friends – Some Unfortunate Sad News to Share Today, The Los Padres lost a legend with the recent passing of our dear friend Rik Christensen. Rik, aka Ranger Rik, has been a regular along
LPFA Trail Work GivingTuesday
Hi Everyone – Sorry to inundate you with another #GivingTuesday email but we believe in our goal of restoring the Santa Cruz Trail and we believe that you as trail users should believe in it
Sespe Working Vacation & Exciting Santa Cruz Trail News!
Hello Friends – HAPPY THANKSGIVING! While there is much to be thankful for here in the Los Padres, we are most thankful for the 32 volunteers who helped out last week on our Sespe Working
Sespe, Sierra Madre and more! Come volunteer with us…
https://lpforest.salsalabs.org/oct2022newsletter?wvpId=4e72c95c-a4ad-4df2-a8a2-dcf6b54df2f6 Hello Friends, You may know that the Los Padres is a very large and diverse forest covering approximately 1.75 million acres of the central California coast from Big Sur to the Los Angeles County
LPFA Hiring & Sespe Working Vacation
https://lpforest.salsalabs.org/sept2022newsletter Hello Friends, We hope this email finds you doing well and perhaps with a little mud on your boots? September is supposed to be one of our drier months but fortunately we’ve had some
Los Padres Hunting Season & ERP
Hello Friends, Lots going on across the Los Padres at the moment! We’ll cover much of that down below in Forest 411 but first lets talk about deer hunting season. The busiest and geographically largest deer season
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RATTLESNAKES
Hello Friends, We hope you are having a great summer and still finding some cooler trail time here in the hot Los Padres! LPFA recently asked a group of hikers to list things that scared them


