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It's no secret anymore, California gets that special S-word in the spring after a wet winter (preceded by so many drought winters). I don't think its at peak yet in this location, but I had to drive out there while I was down in the area to check. This hillside is the only one that really looked like this, when I saw the bloom in 2019 it was darn near every hillside. More pics will be coming on my Insta! @seanaimages

Wish I could've gotten a better foreground, but we were staying BEHIND the barbed wire fences. Stay off the damn flowers if you choose to visit!

This looks like mustard to me, which is an invasive species that has been choking out the California poppy.

I hope it's not.

The yellows in the background may be Mustard, couldn't get close enough to tell. I have seen plenty of Mustard blooms along the roads this spring though.

This hillside area doesn't seem to have many poppies, even in the areas the Mustard isn't in either. Those are much more common further south.

Mustard and Lupine. My nose runs just looking at this picture.

windows music blares ungodly loud

Now get ready for the influencer hordes trampling all flowers for internet likes.

Allergy season this year is gonna be rough.

Hahaha some areas down there are absolutely like living in window xp right now

Can't wait! Really surprised these BLM or state park areas don't send a lot of their law enforcement to ticket people during these years.

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I live near the wild flowers. Last major bloom we had more people visit in a day than Disneyland. The roads and infrastructure were not designed for that much traffic. It was gridlocked for 10+ hrs. Locals took to vandalizing the cars illegally parked ( which was all of them). This year they closed it off and barricaded the access road. Keeps the crowds safe and them from trampling all the flowers.

I know exactly where ya are, it's probably a good thing they shut down that area, y'all got wrecked in 2019.

S-word? Do you mean SUPERBLOOM?

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Awesome pic btw.

Thank you much!

Already? Is this from a few years ago?

Yes, but it's not at peak yet. Hard to tell when that will be or if will reach the same levels that 2019 did.

Oooohhh i need to go back to the state park now. I went last month and it hasn’t bloomed yet :D

Go in about 10-14 days, I think it'll peak around then

That is if we're thinking of the same one

Sounds great. Not sure if we are talking about the same one but this one did get featured in some blogs about wild flower blooms before. It has a trail going up a hill :D

Hahaha nope probably a different one. I'm guessing your blooms will be a little earlier but similar time line- don't know first hand though

The kiddo’s spring break is the end of the month so I’ll probably take them there next week to check :D

Release the Bees!

actually those yellow flowers right in front are called fiddlenecks!! but there is likely a ton of mustard in there as well.

Now we wait for all the stupid influencers to come tramping around and demolish it all for the sake of a photo.

Its been pretty impressive driving by on the freeway so far this year.

I'm glad I went there when I did, people don't know about it quite yet so crowds were minimal. Still want to go back during peak though!

where?? where?

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There will be some California poppies in there too, took this hiking in the so cal hills 7 years ago

Is this considered a super bloom? I heard earlier in the year that might be in the cards

Just in time for record fires in late summer

Small price to pay for drought curing water

No do we release the bees u/minqua?!?!

Seeing them all over here. It’s spectacular.

help please the rain won't fuckin stop!

My daughter is super excited for the super bloom!

The problem is probably staffing. A lot of those agencies (especially at a state level) are understaffed/underfunded. Issuing citations would help with the underfunded part but then you need staff to actually do the issuing lol

An officer died during the last superbloom trying to control people from doing just that. Many areas have subsequently banned humans from parking nearby.

There's no actual quantifiable "this is a super bloom" aside from a human saying "yeah this is one"

I wouldn't say this is one, but I also wouldn't say I was there during peak. The one in 2019 was much bigger.

Just driving around through the right areas can be pretty magical

And here it comes again...

Hope y'all get to see it!

Guaranteed. It's just one of the most frustrating things about going to see these blooms - kinda like the other side of the coin. You'll see amazing flowers and you'll see people trampling in them.

In Temecula, I believe they will arrest you now if you attempt to go where the golden poppies are.

Where does one go in SoCal to see this bloom?

Now if the people that prayed for rain can stop praying for rain. Start praying for..........

Oh absolutely. The last poppy super bloom didn't last long with every wannabe social media star rolling around in them. This year will be worse. For anyone that would just like to see, I would suggest taking a look soon.

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