Bothe-napa Valley Sp Campground

Bothe-napa Valley Sp Campground

Bothe-Napa Valley State Park offers quiet and seclusion on the edge ofthe Napa Valley wine country. Visitors can follow hiking trails along astream or climb to a vintage point on Coyote Peak at 1170'. Trails leadto nearby Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park as well as a grove ofredwoods. The park does not have the typical redwood groves as found incoastal areas. These redwoods tend to grow along streams or near springs.For thousands of years before it became a state park, the area was hometo a group of native Americans known as the Wappo. In the 1840s, andEnglishman named Dr. Ed T. Bale acquired a land grant from the Mexicangovernment. The grant included most of the valley floor betweenRutherford and Clistoga. The grant was broken up by sales and barter withmany of the early pioneers. Since most of the park is in the westernhills it contains only a small part of Bale's original grant. This areawas later developed as a large private estate by the Hitchcock family.Later, a large part of the estate was purchased to develop a privateresort called "Paradise Park." The area today contains almost 2,000acres. The park has campsites and a swimming pool. A horseback rentalconcession operates during the summer and fall.
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