State: California
Location: Mount Diablo State Park
Length, Round Trip: 1 miles
Trail Type: Loop
Best Season: Year-Round
Difficulty: Easy
Usage: Heavy
Klamath Wildlife Refuge
Trail Information
The Fire Interpretive Trail is a short loop trail encompassing the microclimates that encircle the summit.
This easy trail offers spectacular views as well as a journey through time. Discover how nature has created and altered this peak. There are 14 stops, following the Fire Interpretive Trail Guide which can be obtained at the Summit Store or picked up at the trailhead. This will guide you through the diverse flora, fauna, geology and weather which embraces Mt. Diablo’s summit. You will be introduced to chamise, yerba santa, California native juniper, scrub oak and poison oak. Being careful not to step on the sagebrush lizard as you skirt the summit, you’ll come across Devil’s Pulpit, a great red-colored chert monolith, made of chert. Greenstone, an altered submarine volcanic rock laid down on the ocean floor over a 100 million years ago, is the most common rock exposed on the summit of the mountain. Banded red chert, blocky greywacke sandstone and patches of shale are also present along the route.
Directions
The trail is accessed on north side of road beside small picnic site where Summit Road splits into two one-way routes just past exit to Lower Summit Parking Lot.
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