Visit a habitat in San Diego CA /Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve

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Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
Torrey Pines state natural reserve is a 1750 acre reserve that is located on top of the Torrey Pines state beach. This reserve has dedicated the name to its content, the pine trees and other several indigenous wildlife that are located in it for their natural habitat (Whittall, 110). The park contains well-kept terrains that go all the way to the cliffs giving the hikers a breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean (Hierl, 170). The paths are easy to trail and are also family friendly that gives its visitors a great experience when hiking (Cole and Eugene, 343 & Davis, 74).
Starting on the tour of the reserve, together with others we headed towards the trail head where we spotted lots of pine trees and cactus along. We finally set our feet on the first set of stairs of the trails that gave us a wonderful view of the ocean and some surrounding cliffs. The trail continued offering another nice view of the beach. Further beyond the beach view, we passed some sandstone outcrops. From here, almost all the turns we made gave us breathtaking views of the cliffs that are sculptured by long-term coastal winds. We found ourselves near a viewing area that is a fence to prevent us from going too near to the heavily eroded areas as it might collapse with tourists. As we trailed our way back to the beach trail, we encountered streams f people as so many people leave around there. Reaching the main trail, we passed through the famous Torrey Pines golf course.

This trail landed us on a cemented path that led us to the where we started the tour.
Even though some of the trails are strenuous, the park rangers are always available to give directions on which ones are the best to use. The park has a place that its visitors can buy food and drinks but it does not allow any kind of food into the park, only water is allowed during hiking. The reserve is mainly made up of pine trees hence its name and a section of plateaus and high cliffs that overlook its namesake, the Torrey Pines state beach (Lamont and Stephen, 396). It also has a lagoon that helps the seabirds during their migration (Sohl and Lauri, 192). The trails are about eight miles within the park, and this offers the hikers and the beach visitors an attractive reason to visit the place. My best experience is the museum that sits on top of the hill and the view of the Torrey Pines state beach that reserve gives.
Work cited
Cole, Kenneth L., and Eugene Wahl. “A late Holocene paleoecological record from Torrey Pines
state reserve, California.” Quaternary Research 53.3 (2000): 341-351.
Davis, Gary E. “National Park stewardship and ‘vital signs’ monitoring: a case study from
Channel Islands National Park, California.” Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 15.1 (2005): 71-89.
Hierl, Lauren A., et al. “Assessing and prioritizing ecological communities for monitoring in a
regional habitat conservation plan.” Environmental Management 42.1 (2008): 165-179.
Lamont, Eric E., and Stephen M. Young. “Noteworthy plants reported from the Torrey Range:
2002 and 2003.” Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (2004): 394-402.
Sohl, Terry L., and Lauri B. Sohl. “Land‐use change in the Atlantic coastal pine barrens
ecoregion.” geographical review 102.2 (2012): 180-201.
Whittall, Justen B., et al. “Finding a (pine) needle in a haystack: chloroplast genome sequence
divergence in rare and widespread pines.” Molecular Ecology 19 (2010): 100-114.