Mia’s Little Feet Adventures: Sawyer’s Camp Trail

How about a getaway after Thanksgiving? Yes! that was another adventure of our baby, Mia’s little feet second outdoor adventure!

After the joy of thanksgiving at home, our family planned to go somewhere to spend a good time together outdoors. We wanted to enjoy the season outside and we wanted our baby to visit some place where she could feel the breeze of the nature in her skin. So we decided to go to a Camp Trail in San Mateo and then to a beach in Santa Cruz. Early in the morning after the joyful night of thanksgiving celebration, we got up and made ourselves ready. I packed all Mia’s needs including anything else she may needed and my loving husband’s job was to secured Mia’s carrier and stroller in the van while the rest of the family were in charge of the food. Before we left I had to feed baby and changed her diaper before we put her in her carrier and in the car seat. After all our valuables were prepared we put everything in the van then off we go!

SAWYER CAMP TRAIL

Mia was sleeping so soundly in her car seat that she didn’t even bother the noise we made when we were sharing laughter and jokes while traveling. It took us an hour and a half to reached the camp.

Sawyer Camp is a part of Crystal Springs Regional Trail in the south of San Mateo County. It is best known for its lengthy trail which  bikers/cyclist, hikers, joggers and horseback riders love the most. It is a very popular recreation for families because there you can spend time exercising together while enjoying the serenity of the water reservoir and the shades of trees around the area.

When we arrived, we found numerous cars parked on the side of the road and that made it very difficult for us to find parking especially for the size of the van that we had, we needed big parking space to fit in. We needed to go back and forth to find the right spot and fortunately after 15 minutes or so we finally found a good space to park, it was not close to the camp entrance way but we didn’t have a choice.

Everybody got off the van while Mia tried to open her eyes and fully stretched her arms as she wondered where she was. We took her in her stroller and walked with everyone a few miles away towards the camp’s entrance. Restrooms were near the entrance gate, we took advantage of that and pee before walking on the trail. Once we started walking we saw a lot of people walking, jogging and biking, some were coming towards us and others were heading same direction as ours. It was a cool sunny day with lot of winds. We were glad that we were wearing our jackets and that we wrapped our baby well with blankets. While walking we got to see beautiful view of the water reservoir. The tranquility and the great landscape were breathtaking, it was such a very picturesque view. We saw benches along the side of the trail in several different spots to allow people to rest and hydrate. The trail was very long and we had to stop to rest and sat on one and feed Mia with bottle of milk. Nothing else was more special than to see our baby smirked as sunshine and cool wind kissed her face.We continued walking until we got tired and decided not to go further more. The trail seem to not have an end but the time we spent to walk was way worth it because it gave us a good time to talk and joke. Even though we did not get to the end of that trail we still had to praise ourselves because we made it long where we where that even felt like it was 3 miles and that for us was very long since we rarely do long walks. This was definitely a nice experience to unwind such lovely place and I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves to have outdoor adventures.THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE TRAVELING TO THIS PLACE:

1. Expect to walk some distance away from the entrance of the camp because there are a lot of people visiting the place and parking is a bit difficult to find.

2. Sawyer Camp Trail does NOT allow dogs to enter. Not a dog- friendly area.

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