Samuel P. Taylor State Park
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Samuel P. Taylor State Park
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 View from Barnabe Fire Road in Samuel P. Taylor State Park |
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| location | Marin County in California (USA) | |
| surface | 1166 ha | |
| Geographical location | 38 ° 1 ' N , 122 ° 44' W | |
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| Setup date | 1945 | |
| administration | California Dept. of Parks and Recreation | |
The Samuel P. Taylor State Park is a California State Park in Marin County . The approximately 1166 hectare park is named after Samuel Penfield Taylor (1827-1886), who came to wealth during the California gold rush and acquired the land near what is now Lagunitas-Forest Knolls in the second half of the 19th century. Taylor built California's first paper mill there and is also buried in the state park area. In 1945 the country fell to the US state California. A special feature of the park is an approximately 243 hectare pristine primary forest with coastal redwoods .
The park was already used for tourism during Taylor's lifetime. It was connected from Sausalito to the railway network of the North Pacific Coast Railroad . Under the name "Camp Taylor Resort" Taylor operated a hotel, a campsite and a dance pavilion for guests from nearby San Francisco . After the park was threatened with closure due to the tight California state budget, the National Park Service took over its maintenance and care in 2011. Today the park is used, among other things, by weekenders, who find numerous barbecue and picnic facilities at "Camp Taylor".
The vegetation in Samuel P. Taylor State Park is made up of conifers that alternate with grasslands. Characteristic of this part of California are the coastal sequoia ( Sequoia sempervirens ), the common Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ), the California aralia ( Aralia californica ), evergreen oaks ( Quercus ) and the American strawberry tree ( Arbutus menziesii ). Raccoons ( Procyon lotor ), skunks (Mephitidae), coyotes ( Canis latrans ), bobcats ( Lynx rufus ), gray foxes ( Urocyon cinereoargenteus ), pumas ( Puma concolor ), the Columbia black- tailed deer ( Odocoileus hemionus columbartianus ) live in the park the mule deer , as well as the Sonoma chipmunk , an endemic species of squirrel in Northern California. In the autumn and winter, silver salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ) and steelhead trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus ), an anadromous migratory form of rainbow trout , spawn in Lagunitas Creek , a small river that runs through the park . Lagunitas Creek is an ideal habitat for the endangered species Syncaris pacifica , a freshwater shrimp .
gallery
Parking sign
Gravestone for Samuel P. Taylor
Lagunitas Creek, a small river that runs through the park
Pioneer Tree , one of the oldest coastal redwoods in the park
Web links
- Samuel P. Taylor State Park at California Dept. of Parks and Recreation
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles L. Bolsinger / Karen L. Waddell: Area of Old-Growth Forests in California, Oregon and Washington , United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station 1993, p. 16.
- ↑ James S. Dierke: Samuel Penfield Taylor: Forty-niner, Timber Tycoon, Freemason ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: The Scottish Rite Journal, August 1999, last accessed September 23, 2016.
- ^ Sally Kuchar: Open for Business , in: San Francisco Chronicle of October 7, 2011, last accessed on September 23, 2016.
- ↑ On this and the following cf. the Samuel P. Taylor State Park brochure published by the California State Parks Administration .
