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Locations South of Morro Bay State Park
Places you can visit using ordinary care:
Elfin
Forrest is safe if you stay on the Boardwalk, and don’t handle
the vegetation. Audubon Overlook has poison-oak on both sides
of the entrance path as of 1-17-02. Don’t touch any
vegetation there.
Sweet
Springs has large patches of poison-oak. Some of these are
labeled. The paths are wide, so you’ll be safe. Just be
careful what you touch. You’ll see poison-oak trying to climb
eucalyptus trees there. Eucalyptus has a defense against vines
growing straight up it. It sheds its outer bark, to which the
vine is attached, and down comes the vine!
Places where you
must be able to identify poison-oak:
West of Pecho Road the
poison-oak is fierce in places, and absent in others, from
Butte Street near the north end to the locked gate at the
south. This applies also to the Sand Spit.
Places where you can control only the amount of exposure:
Los Osos Oaks State Reserve has
poison-oak everywhere just off the trails.
East of Pecho Road in Montano de Oro
State Park.
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