Join Weekend Amblers on our popular UCSB North Campus Open Space Walk, a SBNC favorite! The NCOS estuary, upland, and wetland restoration project supports a diversity of birds, fish, and wildlife, absorbs flood waters, and is adaptive to sea level rise on 136 acres of a former golf course. Two and a half miles of relatively level trails provide scenic views and great photo ops, taking us out to the beach at Coal Oil Point and back. For this walk, due to the bird habitation, especially the snowy plover nesting project on the beach and their nesting season, we are asking that dogs don't participate on this day. We hope to show you as much as 10% of the existing population of Snowy Plovers! (a threatened species) Snowys nest on the California and Oregon coast. The main entrance and parking lot for NCOS is just west of Storke Road at 6969 Whittier Drive, Goleta. Look for the red Newcomers sign and park at the Carlton-Duncan visitor plaza.

Take either Hollister or the 101 to Glen Annie/Storke Rd., Storke south to Whittier Drive (R) then north 100 yards to the parking lot and visitor plaza. It is well marked. Red Newcomer's signs will be present.