SEEKING OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS!

Posted March 8, 2024

Overlook Volunteer Are you a devotee of the Overlook Trail? (Heck, aren’t we all?) We SOT Stewards are seeking new volunteers to help with outreach and fundraising and we’d LOVE for you to join us!!! No minimum commitment or required hours; just join us and pitch in where you can.

With over 60,000 visits a year, Sonoma Overlook Trail is in one sense the largest nonprofit in the Valley. What better cause than this natural, nurturing space to devote a few spare hours? PLUS, did you know that volunteering is good for your brain?!? Yes!! CONTACT US now for more info….

Dia de los Muertos • Day of the Dead Cemetery Tour

Posted September 27, 2023

Filed under Events, Fall, Fundraising, History, Mountain Cemetery, Stewardship

Tour Sonoma History through Mountain Cemetery

Saturday November 4th, 2023
10 am OR 12:30pm
$40 Suggested Donation
REGISTER

The Sonoma Overlook Trail Stewards invite you to take a lively, informative walk through our historic cemetery with our own amateur historian Fred Allebach.

Meet ranchers and ranch hands, real estate tycoons, farmers and farriers, carpenters and stone masons, quarry-men, grocers, butchers, bakers, maybe a candlestick maker, and many more! This fundraising event is limited to 25 participants per hike. We sell out every year, so register early to be sure you get a spot!

We’ll have a hike at 10am and another at 12:30. Your $40 donation includes the walking tour, cookies and cider. All proceeds go toward improvements on the Overlook Trail. The Trail is solely supported by private donations.

Crafting the Overlook for the Years Ahead

Posted September 2, 2023

Filed under Fundraising, Stewardship, Trail Maintenance

Sonoma Overlook Loop We’re rolling into autumn. As always, we continue our work to keep the trails healthy, safe and accessible. If you’ve visited lately, you’ve seen many freshly graded sections, thanks to our intrepid Maintenance Team.

Yes, we carry out much of the labor ourselves, with pleasure. However, the Overlook lies on a mountain of rock, so when we can, we bring in specialized crews, with specialized equipment, to carry out some of the heavier work. If you’ve been an Overlook devotee for long, you’ll have seen the glorious results of these projects, improvements that are likely to last well beyond our lifetimes.

We are now raising the funds needed to complete the third and final phase of this process and we need your help!

Please consider becoming a part of it all as a supporter of the Overlook Trail, or renewing your support, with a tax-deductible donation to the cause. What finer purpose than the betterment of a local sanctuary that serves 60,000 visitors a year?

Donate via credit card HERE.

To contribute by check, make it payable to:
“Sonoma Ecology Center”, include “For Sonoma Overlook Trail” in the memo, and send it to:

Sonoma Overlook Trail
c/o Sonoma Ecology Center
PO Box 1486
Eldridge, CA 95431

All donations are tax deductible.

Sonoma Raceway Hike is Back!

Posted April 2, 2022

Filed under Events, Fundraising, Hiking, Spring, Stewardship

unnamed (1) After two years of cancellations due to COVID-19, we are thrilled to invite you once again to join us on this self-guided hike on the pristine 1,600-acre Sonoma Raceway property which is not usually accessible to the public. This special place offers gorgeous 360-degree views; come and see spectacular wildflowers!

Saturday, May 14, 2022
9 am-12:00 noon

3 mile self-guided hike (approx. 1.5 hours)
5 mile self-guided hike (approx. 2.5 hours)

Cost: $50 Tax deductible, non-refundable donation

8:00am – 8:20am: Arrival/Gates Open
8:20am – 9:00am: Refreshments (Donuts & Coffee) on the Redwood Deck overlooking the Raceway and Sonoma Valley. Sonoma Raceway hosts Chelsea Lazzari, Randall Brown, and Bobby O’Gorman will provide an introduction to the 1,600 acre Sonoma Raceway property before the hike begins.

After two years of cancellations due to Covid, we are thrilled to invite you once again to join us on this self-guided hike on the pristine 1,600-acre Sonoma Raceway property which is not usually accessible to the public. This special place offers gorgeous 360-degree views; come and see spectacular wildflowers!

Dia de los Muertos — Day of the Dead Cemetery Tour

Posted August 24, 2019

Filed under Events, Fall, Fundraising, Hiking, Mountain Cemetery

Please join us for a lively, informative walk through our historic Mountain Cemetery with amateur historian Fred Allebach. Meet cowboys and Indians, ranchers and real estate tycoons, farmers and farriers, carpenters and stone masons, quarry-men, grocers, butchers, bakers, maybe a candlestick maker, and many more!