Montara Mountain will be closed three days a week in county park

The state is taking money from San Mateo county, San Mateo county is taking $700,000 from San Mateo County Parks and Recreation, and Parks and Recreation is closing Montara Mountain Trail at San Pedro Valley County Park three days a week.  Also closed will be San Bruno Mountain County Park near Brisbane, Junipero Serra County Park in San Bruno, and Edgewood County Park near Woodside.

Park gates will be locked on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays starting next week. On those days you will have to see the view from the top of Montara Mountain on your computer. The park closings will affect 100,000 users annually and save $330,000. On the bright side, the governor kept his promise to make it cheaper to register your car. I don’t know about you, but he saved me $55 this year. I plan to spend it on ice cream. Or a tank and a half of gas.

UPDATE: Carl May notes that Montara Mountain won’t be entirely closed: "It will be no big thing to walk around the gates at San Pedro Valley. But the primary reason is that most people hiking and biking Montara Mountain, including most of those who go all the way to the top for the views you mention, enter by way of McNee Ranch in Montara (gate on the east side of Hwy 1 just north of Martini Creek and a few by way of the parking area at Gray Whale Cove). The trail up from San Pedro Valley is the more minor route for mountaintop visitors….From the Pacifica side some use Old San Pedro Mountain Road extending off Higgins Way in Pacifica for access to Montara and San Pedro Mountains."

I have updated the headline to say that Montara Mountain to reflect this.