{"id":394029,"date":"2026-07-10T23:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394029\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:01:12","slug":"beat-the-heat-with-an-energizing-walk-along-the-famosa-slough-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394029\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat the heat with an energizing walk along the Famosa Slough \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the Trail Report, a weekly email newsletter from reporter Maura Fox about hikes and San Diego County\u2019s outdoors.\u00a0Sign up<\/a>\u00a0to get it in your inbox first, every Friday.<\/p>\n

Famosa Slough has all the fixings for a simple summertime walk: short, easy-to-follow trails that offer picturesque views of the water, shade beneath leafy trees and plenty of benches for sitting and watching wading birds.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s where I\u2019d like to be every evening as the sun goes down. Lately, the heat has been zapping my energy, but a walk this week around Famosa Slough, near Point Loma, was reinvigorating, despite being only about a mile long.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t realize the slough had such lovely trails \u2014 until Jim Peugh, a nearby resident and volunteer with the Friends of Famosa Slough, recently emailed me about them. At 87, Peugh has volunteered with the group for more than 40 years, helping with invasive plant removal, trail maintenance and a stormwater treatment pond restoration project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really into\u2026 trying to live as wildlife-friendly as we can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On my hike, I saw egrets enjoying the water, but you may see plenty of other birds (over 260 species have been recorded there, according to the Friends of Famosa Slough). Green sea turtles were also spotted last month; the slough connects<\/a> the San Diego River estuary and the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

You can read more about my hike in this week\u2019s column<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in San Diego, UC San Diego researchers have developed a method<\/a> to detect when coastal landslides are likely to occur. The study, published in a report this week, could help emergency responders protect the public from cliff collapses.<\/p>\n

I am also hoping to check out an exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art that explores the concept of rest<\/a>. From artist Kate Tova, the work features paintings of people in various stages of rest \u2014 or fatigue \u2014 in California flower fields.<\/p>\n

\u201cI painted my subjects cradled by surreal rolling hills and wildflower meadows, spaces where there is nothing left to do or think about, the kind of place I would escape to in my mind,\u201d Tova told Michael Rocha.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for me this week. Take it easy, and I\u2019ll see you next time.<\/p>\n

\u2014Maura<\/p>\n

Hike of the week: Quiet trails at Famosa Slough are a no brainer for an easy summertime stroll<\/a><\/p>\n

UC San Diego develops way to forecast when coastal landslides are imminent<\/a><\/p>\n

Rare group of western spotted skunks returned to the wild after rehabbing in Ramona<\/a><\/p>\n

Exploration of rest and resilience a burst of color in Oceanside<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Our Wild Familiars\u2019: New book explores human-animal relationships in city spaces<\/a><\/p>\n

Outdoors: This random visitor is often misunderstood and misnamed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the Trail Report, a weekly email newsletter from reporter Maura Fox about hikes and San Diego…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,18116,74,84,76,75,420,1696],"class_list":["post-394029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-hiking","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}