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joangk Apr 5th, 2019 12:15 PM

Super Bloom on Calif/Arizona road trip?
 
We are driving from SF Bay Area to Phoenix, and then up towards Petrified Forest Nat'l Park next week (April 13) and would love to take a route where we might see a super bloom. Any suggestions? I've heard Coachella Valley is nice; would that entail going far off the main road?
Thanks very much in advance.

MichelleY Apr 6th, 2019 08:40 AM

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/l...227590854.html

This page will also have info focusing on the super bloom on the Carrizo Plain in San Luis Obispo County. You could head down 101, then cut over thru SLO County, Carrizo Plain, to I-5. Or detour off of I-5 to Carrizo.

jamie99 Apr 6th, 2019 12:21 PM

There are huge California poppies in bloom at Antelope Valley State Poppy Reserve near Lancaster, in fact there was a story a week ago about two nut cases who landed a helicopter in the middle of the poppy fields. Sadly they did not catch and arrest them.

MichelleY Apr 6th, 2019 07:00 PM

It appears the Carrizo Plain is not big on poppies. I would rather see poppies!

Jean Apr 11th, 2019 07:21 AM

The super bloom is fading fast.... This article was published yesterday.

https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr...410-story.html

clarkgriswold Apr 11th, 2019 12:18 PM

Yes desert superbloom in CA is mostly over....plus isn't the Coachella Music Festival this coming week? Avoid the area.


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