Beatty Parking Area and Trail Connections

In 2008, Midpen purchased the 57-acre property where the project site is located with funding assistance from Santa Clara County as part of an ongoing collaboration to expand the existing greenbelt in the Lexington Reservoir and Soda Springs Creek watershed. Located south of Los Gatos on the eastern side of Alma Bridge Road and Lexington Reservoir, the property abuts San Jose Water Company lands, through which a trail easement was gifted to Midpen in 1999 to create a trail connection to the popular Priest Rock Trail in the Sierra Azul Preserve. A public visioning process that was undertaken in 2012 and 2013 identified developing public access and parking in the southeastern region of Sierra Azul Preserve, which is also known as the Cathedral Oaks area, as a community priority. Midpen sought to begin fulfilling the public's vision (see Portfolio 22 in the 2014 Vision Plan) with the Beatty Parking Area and Trail Connections project.