Explore the stories and ecosystems accessible from the Crocker Gate trailhead entrance to San Bruno Mountain!
Volunteer at the Mission Blue Nursery! Sign up and choose which nursery activity to help with!
Join us for a fantastic botanical illustration workshop at Mission Blue Nursery, led by Sami Chang!
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Join a guided walk on the Saddle Loop of San Bruno Mountain in honor of Pet Memorial Day
Come "meet the mountain" on September 26th: a show-and-tell, science fair, art show, makerspace, and mountain-meet-and-greet!
This free community gathering will be a celebration of San Bruno Mountain, bursting with opportunities for everyone—from new park visitors to long-time mountain explorers—to learn more about its ecology, history, and stewardship.
Learn about the art of Japanese flower arranging using native plants from San Bruno Mountain! Hosted at the Mission Blue Nursery
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Colma Creek flows from the peaks of San Bruno Mountain all the way to the San Francisco Bay. Help us revitalize a portion of Colma Creek's shoreline along the Bay Trail on Coastal Clean-Up Day.
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Mission Blue Nursery Fall Plant Sale! 10am to 3pm on Saturday, September 12th.
Be part of the Colma Creek Collective! Work with San Bruno Mountain Watch to improve the headwaters of Colma Creek. The event will focus on invasive plant removal in an important riparian area for birds.
Help San Bruno Mountain Watch maintain the San Bruno Mountain Botanical Garden at San Bruno Mountain State & County Park!
Gardening activities may include planting, weeding, pruning, mulching, and watering.
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Help remove invasive weeds like French broom and pincushion plant from the grasslands along the ridge of Buckeye Canyon. These stewardship efforts will help protect habitat for the endangered mission blue and callippe silverspot butterflies.
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Quarry Road Park is a trail, an old road converted to a park, that connects central Brisbane to Buckeye and Owl Canyons. A dedicated group of Brisbane community members have been weeding along the trail, pruning vegetation, and planting native plants from Mission Blue Nursery on the route. Help out on July 25th!
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Help remove invasive weeds like French broom and pincushion plant from the grasslands along the ridge of Buckeye Canyon. These stewardship efforts will help protect habitat for the endangered mission blue and callippe silverspot butterflies.
Be part of the Colma Creek Collective! Work with San Bruno Mountain Watch to improve the headwaters of Colma Creek. The event will focus on invasive plant removal in an important riparian area for birds.
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Join the Dune Defenders on the ancient dunes on the west end of San Bruno Mountain! We’ll be removing ice plant and other invasive plants to benefit the endangered San Francisco Lessingia plant and other native dune flora.
Mission Blue Nursery Summer Plant Sale! 10am to 3pm on Saturday, June 13th from 10am to 3pm.
Join a guided hike to learn about the amazing coyote brush leaf beetle!
Join the Mission Blue Nursery team on San Bruno Mountain!
Help us collect seeds and berries for the nursery. Each month we’ll focus on and learn about different species and regions of the mountain. We’ll also lead seed cleaning and processing activities after collecting.
Russ Aguilar, San Bruno Mountain Watch’s Interpretive Specialist, will lead a guided walk and macrophotography lesson from 1PM to 3PM on Saturday, May 23rd! Russ is a terrific naturalist and expert invertebrate photographer.
If you have a camera with a macro lens, bring it, but if not, you will be able to borrow a clip-on macro lens for your smartphone!
Learn about nature's smallest animals while picking up techniques on how to capture their photos in their native environment.
The hike will be about 2.5 miles on the Dairy Ravine Trail and Summit Loop Trail. The hike included some uphill segments on a gravel and dirt trail.
Join the Dune Defenders on the ancient dunes on the west end of San Bruno Mountain! We’ll be removing ice plant and other invasive plants to benefit the endangered San Francisco Lessingia plant and other native dune flora.
Guided Hike: Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology & How the Flora Responded to a Devastating Debris Flow in Buckeye Canyon
Colma Creek flows from the peaks of San Bruno Mountain all the way to the San Francisco Bay. Help us revitalize a portion of Colma Creek's shoreline on National River Clean-Up Day.
Grand opening ceremony for the San Bruno Mountain Day Use Area
