Pacheco State Park
Gold Country & Central Valley
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 6894
- Established
- 1995
parks detail
- Hook
- Wind-turbine ridgelines and spring wildflowers on the last piece of a Mexican land grant
- More
- Paula Fatjo, last descendant of the Pacheco land grant, willed her ranch to become this park — her wind-swept hills now host one of the state's largest turbine arrays next door. Spring turns the ridges into wildflower runs; kite-flying weather is essentially guaranteed.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.068, -121.195