Visit to Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve in Southern California
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In this video, I show off some remarkable footage of the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve in full bloom. The rolling hills and nearby farms are carpeted in vivid color!
With the plentiful winter rains, it's turned out to be a banner year for the little orange poppies and other assorted wildflowers. the reserve is located 15 miles west of Highway 14 near the city of Lancaster. The visitor center is located 1/2 mile north of the intersection of 150th St W & Lancaster Road.
We visited on April 3rd, 2019. Even though it was a Wednesday afternoon the place was still packed with people that had driven out to see the wondrous sight. Parking in the reserve cost $10.
We have passed by this area at least a half dozen times but our timing has never been just right or the area didn't get enough rain for the impressive super bloom to take place. We were pretty stoked to finally be able to see it.
Another one scratched off the old bucket list. :)
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Amazing 🤩
Very nice, thank you !!
Welcome to Southern California Ray!
Thanks! It's looking beautiful after the winter rains. :)
nice video.
Should have stayed down in Arizona, less people and just as many poppies. But I understand your making your way home. Safe travels.
How lovely. Its impossible not to smile at these flowers and be uplifted by them.
Precious little things 😊💖.
Boy you could see that line of vehicles 🚗 waiting to get to parking. Looked like many were out of luck or wait hours for people to leave and didn’t really see a way for people to turn around. Was those 2 lots it or we’re there more. All I saw from that shot. Also did it have like a gate and open time and close. So people lined up to make sure they could park? And I think the one person described it , WOW ........ Would love to see that one day. How long does it last? Reminds me of the cherry blossoms 🌸 here at DC. Short time to really get the bang... Very cool...
Most weren't waiting for parking, they were parked outside and walked in to save the 10 bucks. It took us about 15 minutes to get inside parking or viewing flowers outside the reserve, I guess it can vary depending on day and time. Park hours are sunrise to sunset. A bloom like this only comes around once in a while and hard to predict depends on the weather and rainfall amounts.
www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=627 Each spring, the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve comes alive with the seasonal surprises of the Mojave Desert Grassland habitat. The duration and intensity of colors and scents vary from year to year. The wildflower season generally lasts from as early as mid-February through May, with a variety of wildflowers creating a mosaic of color that changes daily.
Love Your RV Thats funny. Save $ 10 big ones. Jezzzzz. I look at it like a donation to the parks. But they want to enjoy the park. A beautiful park it is. Boy that camera is doing such a nice job!!
Excellent footage and great music! It's a good thing we don't get the rain like this every year, makes all the wonderful flowers that much more special when they bloom every so often.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful scenery of the Orange Poppies! What a beautiful day to see all those flowers.👍❤️
The orange meadow was amazing.
Absolutely beautiful!!!
Grew up in CA, in elementary school we would go on field trips to the foothills to see the poppies and other wild flowers. Thanks for sharing.
Very pretty Ray, the flower blooms have been great this year. Thanks for sharing.
I went 💕 and it was so beautiful !!! Amazing!
SO BEAUTIFUL!!! Seeing the California poppies has always been on my bucket list, so thank you for sharing the experience.
I live here in the Antelope Valley and yes this years blooms are amazing! It's always windy here :(
You're in my neighborhood in this video. Welcome to the AV!!! I hope you are enjoying your time here. You are viewing the reason my allergies are so bad this year. The traffic on the weekends is impossible around the reserve. Looks terrible on a Wednesday too.
Hope you enjoy your time in our area!!!
Pat
Thanks, was great to finally be able to catch the poppies!
What a find Ray. Right place at the right time.
Pictures are awesome and the music is great. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this video: -0) Beautiful!, I love that there are no dislikes, and generally almost none on Love Your RV videos 🧡☀️
I think I would have parked on the road and taken a bike in.. I would have loved to paint this!! Thanks for posting this!!!
Awesome video of the fields. Thanks a bunch for sharing.
Oh My Gosh! Gorgeous 💐 🌸 ☀️😁🌹🌿🌻🌝 Thanks for sharing guys!
So beautiful! Love the poppies moving in the wind. We just drove from Southern CA up to Oregon, so saw some patches of bright orange, but no time to stop. Glad to see they have trails!
A-MAZING! And SO beautiful! I can't imagine what that really looked like actually being there! :OD
Thanks for sharing!
Wow. We were ecstatic to learn you have visited the Antelope Valley to see the poppies. We live just a few miles from the poppy preserve and would have loved to meet y'all!
Très jolie ! Beautiful place ! 🏔🎥😉👍🏼
Absolutely beautiful! And I see a reminder of Angie on the dash. Special touch and all of us still miss her in your videos.
Thank you for staying on the trails. If you go north towards Mojave pass California City there is another state park called red rock great place to visit also.
Thanks, we stayed at Red Rock last year and loved it! - www.loveyourrv.com/red-rock-canyon-state-park-california/
So cool. :) Thanks for sharing. Michael
Ray, as usual, the video and the music just takes ones breath away. Magnificent! We are on the verge of getting our fifth wheel to start our adventures and your channel has long been an inspiration to us as we have dreamed and learned about what we think it will take to live this new dream. Perhaps we will do a meet up sometime. Thanks for sharing.
That's great to hear!
Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow. All I can say is Wow. Thank you so much for sharing.
I live in southern Arizona and we have both the Arizona and Mexican Gold Poppy here. Those are likely the California Poppy, California Goldfields and Lupine, and they are all BEAUTIFUL this year! Death Valley is in a 10-15 year superbloom this year too due to all of the winter rains we've received. Arizona had the 6th wettest February on record I believe. Totally awesome to behold all around the southwest, but my allergies are paying the price! We just got back from the Chiricahua's and lots of blooms everywhere, as they are all moving up into higher elevations now. Thanks for sharing! Be safe!
I heard Death Valley didn't get a great one this year www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/wildflowers.htm
Thanks Ray! Gorgeous!!
Thanks for sharing your journey.
Beautiful, thank you!
Wow. I had no idea there was a special preserve for poppies. Thanks for educating me.
There's a special preserve for everything in California........................so they can continue to tax us into starvation!!!
Hah! you want to see some high taxes, try living in BC, stands for Bring Cash!
Thank you for the video of the poppy fields. Heard about them but not so good video as this. Thanks again.
Thanks Ray ! That's a great video . i live in Rosamond , California just down the road. Bill
We were just in lake elsinore last week. Rode motorcycle all over the area. Wonderful.
Nice video. Thanks Ray.
Wonderful! Only things missing are Dorothy and Toto and friends. 😄
Better than our display near Oatman but no crowds at our bloom. Beautiful though.
And you had drone footage, LOL
Beautiful
Beautiful! We’ve been following you and your travels for awhile and will be following in your full-timing footsteps in a few weeks. I particularly enjoyed the music with this video. Can you tell us the artist’s name/album name? I would like to hear more. Thanks and keep up the great work! 😊
Thanks! They were Meadows by Benjamin Carey and Western Call by Cody Francis They are part of a collection of music to use in videos that I subscribe to.
www.epidemicsound.com/search/?search_query=Western%20CAll
www.epidemicsound.com/search/?search_query=meadows%20benjamin%20carey
Very nice, do they allow drones there? Your new camera really captures the natural beauty of this place. Thanks! Best Wishes!
I saw posted signs saying no drones and no dogs. With this many people, I guess they need to be hardcore with the rules. When we went in they told us its 1000 dollar fine for walking off the paths. Guess the've had lots of idiots trampling the flowers to get selfies in the fields. Last month someone landed a helicopter! www.santafenewmexican.com/news/california-officials-don-t-land-helicopters-on-our-poppies/article_15474a6e-143f-5436-a415-5d033f4338c7.html
Thanks, Ray
Whats the name of this trail?
Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural Reserve parks.ca.gov/?page_id=627
Do you ever go up the 395 through Owens Valley on your route home?
We have sometimes gone up and camped at Trona Pinnacles and Alabama Hills but usually, double back. The route further on can be dicey weather wise in late March and early April and in the past, our old truck didn't like the steep grades at the higher elevations. This year with all the snow they got I imagine the roads aren't in great shape so decided to take the central valley.
Can You post the exact address?? Beautiful 🤩 TY
Here is from the state park website: parks.ca.gov/?page_id=627
Driving Directions to Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve SNR
The reserve is located 15 miles west of Highway 14 near the city of Lancaster. The visitor center is located 1/2 mile north of the intersection of 150th St W & Lancaster Road.
www.google.com/maps/dir//34.724887,-118.396812/@34.7249116,-118.3990949,17z
Make sure not to step on the flowers
Yes, that's what the paths are for. ;)
What road is this? I have not seen many poppies.🤔
Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural Reserve parks.ca.gov/?page_id=627
Spectacular! How I would like to see this someday but I know dogs aren’t allowed. What do people do that have a pet?
I guess if it was a cool day you could park outside the reserve along the roadway and walk in, many were doing that and also they didn't have to pay the 10 dollar parking fee.
Yeah, moved to Oregon cuz LA got to be too much people things.
Our Poppy fields are under armed guard in Australia, one of the worlds largest pharmaceutical opioid growing locations... They are a red colour when blooming though...
The California poppy has no opium in it ;)
@@frankiew6854 That's what they want you to think....
Wow very nice 👍 🛠🛠🇨🇦
Aw.... C'mon... That's not really the desert, is it???😁😁. We were in California about 4 weeks ago. Flowers were nice then, but not nearly that spectacular.
Hey Ray, just FYI, but Hwy 101 is closed North of Brookings d/t massive slide. Will be closed for???? I know you usually travel that way. Great vid. Drive safe!
Thanks, I've planned to take I5 past it and cut back to the coast north of it this year. Cheers, Ray
Might I suggest coming across Hwy 138w/38. Once west of I5 you travel along the Umpqua River. 138w ends at 38 in Elkton (where I live :). Elkton has some good food choices and Fort Umpqua (a replica of a Hudson Bay fur trading post) just west of Elkton on the left. Also, there is the Dean Creek Elk Viewing area. You end up at Hwy 101 in Reedsport. Safe trip.
I was eyeing that very route, thanks for the tips. :)
Nice
Cram and I do not mix.
yuck, too many people
Wow! Best views of the Poppy's. I see that it was super windy. Was it cold?
Yes, was blowing around 30 MPH, had to keep my ball cap on backward! :) Air temps was around 62F but felt chilly with the wind.
Its always windy there!