Description

Bothe-Napa Valley State Park offers quiet and seclusion on the edge of the Napa Valley wine country. Visitors can follow hiking trails along a stream or climb to a vantage point on Coyote Peak at 1170'. Trails lead to nearby Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park as well as a grove of redwoods. The park does not have the typical redwood groves as found in coastal areas. These redwoods tend to grow along streams or near springs. For thousands of years before it became a state park, the area was home to a group of native Americans known as the Wappo. In the 1840s, an Englishman named Dr. Ed T. Bale acquired a land grant from the Mexican government. The grant included most of the valley floor between Rutherford and Calistoga. The grant was broken up by sales and barter with many of the early pioneers. Since most of the park is in the western hills it contains only a small part of Bale's original grant. This area was later developed as a large private estate by the Hitchcock family. Later, a large part of the estate was purchased to develop a private resort called "Paradise Park." The area today contains almost 2,000 acres. The park has campsites (open year-round) and a swimming pool (open during the summer). A horseback rental concession operates during the summer and fall.

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